Edward Martin is greatest remembered for serving because the captain of the Martin handcart firm, a gaggle of greater than 500 pioneers who began their journey late and encountered heavy snow and extreme temperatures in Wyoming earlier than reaching Salt Lake Metropolis in November 1856.
What many might not know is that a number of years later Martin grew to become a outstanding photographer. He captured pictures of many early Latter-day Saints, together with members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and many of the bishops serving in Salt Lake Metropolis wards. He additionally photographed a number of buildings within the metropolis, most notably the Salt Lake Temple and Tabernacle.
A lot of his pictures are preserved and accessible for viewing digitally within the Church Historical past Catalog utilizing these search phrases: “Martin, Edward, Photographer, 1818-1882,” in line with Church Historical past Division weblog publish by Jeff Morley. Pictures, movies and different sources can be found by the catalog however might require submitting permission to entry.
Listed below are some images and hyperlinks to Martin’s assortment within the Church Historical past Catalog.
This can be a group portrait of Zina D. H. Younger, Bathsheba W. Smith, Emily Dow Partridge Younger and Eliza R. Snow. Zina, Bathsheba and Eliza all served as presidents of the Aid Society, whereas Emily served as a Aid Society trainer.
This montage of particular person portraits consists of, so as of look (however not solely so as of seniority), from left to proper beginning on the prime: Orson Hyde, Orson Pratt, Wilford Woodruff, John Taylor, George A. Smith, Ezra T. Benson, Charles C. Wealthy, Lorenzo Snow, Erastus Snow, Franklin D. Richards, George Q. Cannon and Joseph F. Smith.
This can be a {photograph} of an engraved perspective examine of the Salt Lake Temple with inscription on the again that reads, “Temple because it’s to be completed at Nice Salt Lake Metropolis, measurement 186 ½ by 99-, top 100 ft, towers 200 ft, partitions 8 ft thick.”
See extra of what’s within the Church Historical past Library’s collections at Catalog.ChurchofJesusChrist.org.
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