Clean, attractive blue-tinted plate Camp No. 4 near Promontory Point, Great Salt Lake. Evening camp scene by a bluff.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).
Camp No. 4 near Promontory Point, Stansbury, 1853
Camp No. 4 near Promontory Point, Great Salt LakeStansbury's 1853 Report