Historic Photos of Salt Lake City

Historic Photos of Salt Lake City

Author: Jeff Burbank

Publisher: Historic Photos

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 9781596523852

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Founded by Mormon pioneers seeking a place to practice their religion, Salt Lake City became a center of regional commerce, fueled by mining and the completion of the Union Pacific and local railroads. It ultimately attracted residents from all parts of Europe, as well as Mexico, China, and Japan. Historic Photos of Salt Lake City captures the story of this unique community through still photography selected from the finest collections, a visual record of the city's history presented in striking black-and-white photographs. From the building of the magnificent Mormon Temple and Tabernacle to the establishment of America's first department store; from muddy streets to wide boulevards with park-like medians; from Greek grocery stores to Japanese-American baseball teams, Historic Photos of Salt Lake City tells a visual story of a unique American city.


Secret Salt Lake City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Secret Salt Lake City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Author: Jeremy Pugh

Publisher: Reedy Press LLC

Published: 2021-05-15

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1681060736

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Where can you find a chunk of the Matterhorn enshrined at a Utah ski resort? What is the origin of Josepa, the Hawaiian ghost town in the desert? And why is Utah called the Beehive State? You hold in your hands the answers to these questions and more in this guide to the oddities, wonders, myths, and legends of Utah’s capital city. Secret Salt Lake City opens a window into the weird, the bizarre, and the obscure secrets of the city, some of which are hiding in plain sight. Founded by religious pioneers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in 1847, its one-of-a-kind origin story makes Salt Lake City a rich backdrop for frontier grit, culture, and curious relics. Did you know that there is an alphabet hidden in your computer that was invented in Salt Lake City? What is the significance of the religious symbols on the Salt Lake Temple? And how did Sherlock Holmes solve a fictional mystery in London that originated in Utah? Lifetime resident and author Jeremy Pugh and Mary Brown Malouf unlock these mysteries and more to pull back the curtain on the secrets of Salt Lake City. This isn’t your traditional guidebook, and it will enrich your visit to the Crossroads of the West.


The Avenues of Salt Lake City

The Avenues of Salt Lake City

Author: Karl T. Haglund

Publisher:

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780913738313

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This book deals with both the history and architecture of the Avenues Historic District -- primarily a residential district -- of Salt Lake City.


Appropriate: A Provocation

Appropriate: A Provocation

Author: Paisley Rekdal

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2021-02-16

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1324003596

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A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination. How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the idea of cultural appropriation has evolved—and perhaps calcified—in our political climate. What follows is a penetrating exploration of fluctuating literary power and authorial privilege, about whiteness and what we really mean by the term empathy, that examines writers from William Styron to Peter Ho Davies to Jeanine Cummins. Lucid, reflective, and astute, Appropriate presents a generous new framework for one of the most controversial subjects in contemporary literature.


Infinite City

Infinite City

Author: Rebecca Solnit

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2010-11-29

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 0520262492

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What makes a place? Rebecca Solnit reinvents the traditional atlas, searching for layers of meaning & connections of experience across San Francisco.


The Peoples of Utah

The Peoples of Utah

Author: Utah State Historical Society

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13:

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Contains histories of some of the minorities in Utah.


Utah History Encyclopedia

Utah History Encyclopedia

Author: Allan Kent Powell

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13:

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The first complete history of Utah in encyclopedic form, with entries from Anasazi to ZCMI!