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Fall Photographic History Auction, 2025

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  2025-09-06 13:00:00 2025-09-06 13:00:00 America/New_York Michael Lehr Michael Lehr : Fall Photographic History Auction, 2025 https://auction.michaellehrantiques.com/auctions/michael-lehr-antiques/fall-photographic-history-auction-2025-20189
We are pleased to announce our next auction, featuring approximately 200 individual lots drawn from a diverse and compelling range of 19th- and early 20th-century photography. This sale focuses on vernacular images, photographs created not as formal studio portraits or elite commissions, but as direct, unscripted records of lived experience. These are objects made by and for everyday people, preserving moments of intimacy, labor, travel, performance, identity, and loss.
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Lot 374

Album Page Featuring Salt Lake Temple Block and Mormon Elders

Estimate: $200 - $300
Starting Bid
$100

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Two compelling late 19th-century 4 X 6 photographic prints mounted to a gray album page, offering a juxtaposition of place and leadership within the early Latter-day Saints movement. At left, a fine outdoor photograph titled in the negative "Temple Block Salt Lake" presents an elevated view of Temple Square in Salt Lake City, Utah. The spired Salt Lake Temple dominates the frame, with the Tabernacle and Assembly Hall also visible, along with streetcar lines, telegraph poles, and the statue of Brigham Young in the foreground, capturing the urban and spiritual center of Mormon life.

To the right, a studio portrait shows three senior Mormon elders posed beside a table stacked with religious volumes. All three men are formally dressed in dark suits, and the central figure stands behind the seated pair, forming a pyramidal composition indicative of ecclesiastical authority. The grouping likely represents leaders of the LDS Church, possibly members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles or the First Presidency during the late 19th century.

Together, the paired images offer a visual narrative of both the sacred architecture and spiritual hierarchy that shaped Mormon identity in the American West.

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