Savage & Ottinger
Carte-de-visite of the "Black Rock in the Lake," Salt Lake City, 1860s
Albumen print
2 1/2 x 4 inches
Studio backmark verso.
Studio backmark verso.
A handsome landscape view by pioneering Utah photographers C.R. Savage and G.M. Ottinger. According to James F. Reed in 1871, the Donner Party named “Black Rock” as they passed that...
A handsome landscape view by pioneering Utah photographers C.R. Savage and G.M. Ottinger.
According to James F. Reed in 1871, the Donner Party named “Black Rock” as they passed that location during their journey along the Hastings Cutoff in August of 1846. From the Pacific Rural Press (1871:188), Reed notes “We then followed [Hasting’s] road around the Lake without incident worthy of notice until reaching a swampy section of the country west of Black Rock, the name we gave it. Here we lost a few days on the score of humanity.”
According to James F. Reed in 1871, the Donner Party named “Black Rock” as they passed that location during their journey along the Hastings Cutoff in August of 1846. From the Pacific Rural Press (1871:188), Reed notes “We then followed [Hasting’s] road around the Lake without incident worthy of notice until reaching a swampy section of the country west of Black Rock, the name we gave it. Here we lost a few days on the score of humanity.”