Mertie West walks with a tour group through the Temple Square grounds, Salt Lake City, 1942

Item Overview

Title

Mertie West walks with a tour group through the Temple Square grounds, Salt Lake City, 1942

Photographer

West, H. H. (Henry Hebard), 1872-1958

Date Created

June 21, 1942

Date

1942-06-21

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

West (H. H.) Collection

Notes

Description

Photograph of Mertie West walking with a group of other tourists on a guided group tour of the Temple Square grounds. Manicured grounds stand in the foreground at left and extend into the distance. At right, tourists walk in a large group away from the camera along a walkway. Mertie West walks in the middle of the group and glances back towards the camera. The corner of a 2-story building stands along the left frame. Tall trees stands behind the tour group, dotting the grounds. Through the trees, another building is barely visible at center.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: 1584. Yellowstone trip 1942. Salt Lake City, Utah. Sunday June 21, 1942. 1. At left, the Mormon Tabernacle thru under the trees. At right, the Temple The tabernacle was closed to the public, owing to a bomb being found in it one day. Closed for duration of the war. Beautiful grounds. 2. Escorted group of tourists in the Temple grounds. Mertie West turns to look back at camera. 3. We drove out to Saltair to see Great Salt Lake. The pavilion was a mile from the lake. Lake is evaporating. We never got near the lake. Sign at the end of a wooden wharf where pavilion in located. 3 films. [Note: In all instances of the year date, 1942, the last digit (2) is handwritten over a typed 3.]

Physical Description

Extent

1 photographic negative

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

cellulose nitrate film
black-and-white photographs

Names

West, Mertie Whitaker, 1875-1972

Location

Utah--Salt Lake City

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Temple Square (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Tourists--Utah--Salt Lake City