Utah Power and Light, Main Street at Night with New Lights

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Title	Utah Power and Light, Main Street at Night with New Lights
Collection	Mss C 275; Shipler Commercial Photographers Collection
Photo Number	Shipler #17405
Photographer	Shipler Commercial Photographers; Shipler, Harry
Publisher	Utah State Historical Society; Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Date of photograph	27 September 1916
Date.Original	1916-09-27
Subject	City and town life; Lighting; Power resources; Electric utilities; Lampposts; Street lights
Corporate name	Utah Power and Light Company
Geopolitical place	Utah; Salt Lake County; Salt Lake City
Historic address	Main Street, North of 400 South
Historic place name	Boston Building; Newhouse Building; Walker Bank Building; No-Ni-Shee Arch
Description	Image shows a general view of Main Street with it's new Utah Power and Light street lights. The lights run north from 400 South to the No-Ni-Shee Arch at the intersection of South Temple. The archway was built for the Wizard of the Wasatch celebration.
Comment	No-Ni-Shee was the name of a mythical American Indian Salt Princess. It was believed that her tears caused the Great Salt Lake to be salty. This 1916 arch was dedicated to her and sprayed with salt water so that it eventually crystallized on Main Street.
Rights Management	Digital Image © 2002 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution	Utah State Historical Society
Relation	Shipler Commercial Photographers, Series 1
Identifier	39222000674569
Source format	Glass Plate Negative
Source size	10 inches x 8 inches
Source physical description	Glass plate is yellowing.
Source donors	Shipler, William H.
Source donation date	1988
Type	Image
Format.Use	image/jpeg
Resolution	TIFF: 800 ppi
Bit depth	8-bit grayscale
Dimensions	JPEG: 700 x 556 pixels
Scanning device	Creo-Scitex Jazz+ Flatbed Scanner
Date.Digital	2002-04-29
Scanned by	Digital Technologies, Marriott Library, University of Utah
Metadata cataloger	Haley Q. Petersen
Collection Information	http://history.utah.gov/FindAids/C00275/

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