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2023.055.3.0226Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a Morman Temple in Salt Lake City. Above the image "T166 (Star)" is printed, below the image "6044T Morman Temple and Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
6044
MORMAN TEMPLA AND TABERNACLE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH
The cost of the Morman Tmeple is said to have been $5,000,000. It was forty years in building, from 1853 to 1893. It is 186 feet long and 99 feet wide. The material is granite, poetically "snow-white," but acutally gray. There are three pointed towers at each end; the highest is the central tower at the east end, 210 feet high and surmouned by a colossal statue of hammered copper, 12 1/2 feet high, of the Morman angel Moroni. The interior is accessible only to Mormons in good standing.The Temple is used for baptisms, ordinations, marriages - including the Mormon marriages for eternity - prayer, preaching, teaching, and theological lectures.
The curious Tabernacle, with its turtlebacked roof, is oval in shape, 250 feet long, 150 feet wide, and 70 feet high. It has seats for 8,000 people, and will hold 12,000. Both the Temple and the Tabernacle are in Temple Block, a square of ten acres in teh heart of Salt Lake City. The city was laid out in 1847 by the Mormons under the leadership of Brigham Young. It is the capital of the state.
By the Emunds bill of 1882 polygamists were disfranchised in the Territories. In 1890 the Mormon President, Wilford Woodruff, in a manifesto advised the Mormons to refrain from illegal marriages. Upon Utah's prohibiting polygamy it was admitted to Statehood in 1890. Roberts, Congressman-elect from Utah, a polygamist, was unseated in 1899.
The principal industries of utah are the mining of silver, lead and copper.
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