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Title: Salt Lake City : where to go and what to see
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Union Pacific Railroad Co
Subjects: Utah Salt Lake Salt Lake City Description Utah Description and travel
Publisher: Omaha, Neb: Union Pacific Railroad, 1910
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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ly and ihe Beehive, the emblems of Utah. Itwas the purpose of the builders to preserve in thisroom the scenes of the vanished West and com-memorate important events in Utah History. On thewest side are five arched art-glass windows speciallydesigned from original sketches. The central oneillustrates modern transportation by train across theGreat Salt Lake, and the others the pony express, anoverland coach, the buffalo, and a modern smelter. But the large mural paintings inTWO GREAT the tympanum arch panel at thePAINTINGS north and south ends of the room are the crowning glory of the dec-orations. These are master-pieces of coloring andpresent the scenes of two tremendous events in thehistory of Far Western civilization — the arrival of thefirst band of pioneers in the valley of the Great SaltLake, and the driving of The Last Golden Spiketo complete the first trans-continental railroad. Oneended the epoch of the wilderness and ushered inthe period of the pioneer; the other marked the
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DO •oc.t CD o 35 g u *3 o o 26 E-i cdO SALT LAKE CITY close of wagon transportation and the dawn of theera of steam and steel. The pictures are true tonature and their portraiture is from life. They domore than depict the scenes of history for the artistshave painted into them the indescribable somethingthat comes only by inspiration — the life, the spirit,that makes you half wonder if the scenes before youare not real. The painter has touched the pio-THE neer picture with the spirit of the PIONEERS moment when the white-covered OF 1847 ox-drawn wagons of the First Com- pany were halted at the mouth ofEmigration Canon, and Brigham Young exclaimed, ashe recognized the distant lake and the arid valleythat he had seen in his dreams, This is the place;drive on! The other picture is of the sceneTHE DRIVING at Promontory, Utah, on May 10,OF THE 1869—the wedding-day of the GOLDEN Pacific Railroads—the day upon SPIKE which The Last Golden Spike was driven to complete the firstall-rail

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