No-Ni-Shee Arch, Main Street

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Title No-Ni-Shee Arch, Main Street
Collection Mss C 275; Shipler Commercial Photographers Collection; Classified Photograph Collection
Photo Number Shipler #17357 ; 25123
Creator Shipler Commercial Photographers; Shipler, Harry
Publisher Utah State Historical Society; Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Date of Photograph 21 September 1916
Date 1916-09-21
Subject Arches; Monuments; Hotels; City and town life; Churches; Street-railroads
Person Young, Brigham, 1801-1877
Spatial Coverage Utah; Salt Lake County; Salt Lake City
Historic Address Main Street, South of South Temple
Historic Place Name No-Ni-Shee Arch; Temple Square; Brigham Young Monument; Hotel Utah; Joseph Smith Memorial Building
Description The No-Ni-Shee archway, a unique, temporary, man-made archway near the intersection of Main Street and South Temple. The archway was built for the Wizard of the Wasatch celebration. 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.
Comment This image included in both the Shipler and the Classified photograph collections.
Rights Management Digital Image © 2002 Utah State Historical Society. All Rights Reserved.
Holding Institution Utah State Historical Society
Relation Shipler Commercial Photographers, Series 1; Classified Photograph Collection, 979.21 Salt Lake City--Main Street
File Name 39222000674452
Source Format Glass Plate Negative
Source Size 10 inches x 8 inches
Source Physical Description Good condition.
Source Donors Shipler, William H.
Source Donation Date 1988
Type Image
Format 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 2002-04-23
Scanned By Digital Technologies, Marriott Library, University of Utah
Collection Information http://heritage.utah.gov/apps/history/findaids/C00275/c0275.xml
ARK ark:/87278/s6qv3zqs
Setname dha_scp
ID 530040
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6qv3zqs
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