Oldsmobile at Andersons Tower

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Title	Oldsmobile at Andersons Tower
Collection	Mss C 275; Shipler Commercial Photographers Collection
Photo Number	Shipler #19456
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	14 May 1919
Date.Original	1919-05-14
Subject	Monuments; Towers; Antique and classic cars; Automobiles; Follies (Architecture)
Person	Anderson, Robert R.
Corporate name	Oldsmobile
Geopolitical place	Utah; Salt Lake County; Salt Lake City
Historic address	A Street 5th (Fifth) Avenue
Historic place name	Anderson Tower
Description	Image shows a general view of a classic automobile parked at the base of Anderson Tower.
Comment	Anderson Tower was built in 1884 by Robert R. Anderson. It was constructed of gray granite as a tourist attraction. Anderson thought that tourists might pay to see the view from the tower. This venture was unsuccessful, but the tower stood for 48 years before it was razed in 1932.
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	39222000685680
Source format	Glass Plate Negative
Source size	8 inches x 10 inches
Source physical description	Good condition.
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	2002-06-05
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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