Clean, attractive gray-tinted plate Bowery, Mint and President's House, Great Salt Lake City. Attractive, early view of Salt Lake City, UT showing people milling about, several buildings, and a corn field in the forefront.From Stansbury's 1853 Exploration and Survey of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Howard Stansbury, a Captain and topographical engineer, was assigned in to survey the region of the Great Salt Lake in search of a possible transcontinental railway route and of a better route between Fort Bridger (Wyoming) and Salt Lake City (Utah).