Gisbert Bossard

Bossard photograph number 80; hand colored. Statuary group located in the northeast corner of the Celestial Room on the second floor of the Salt Lake temple. At the top of the grouping a woman holds a torch above her head; at her feet are cherubs. Joseph Smith, right, and Hyrum Smith, left, hold onto the support column. At the base of the sculpture God the Father and God the Son appear to Joseph Smith, who is kneeling; he is flanked by women who are reading. The identity of the sculptor and the pre￾sent location of the piece are unknown.

Title lantern slide which began the show at the Bijou Theatre in New York City on 11 November 1911. On this view only, the edges have not been cropped.

From just inside North Temple Street entrance (midway between Main and West Temple streets) looking southeast. Left, old Annex; right, William C. Staines Conservatory (greenhouse). The sign on the right gatepost reads: “No Admittance. Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted.”

Joseph F. Smith, left; John Henry Smith, right, in front of Tabernacle.

Beehive House, main floor. Joseph F. Smith’s (formerly Brigham Young’s) bedroom, looking toward northwest corner. “[I]n showing the [photograph] of your private office at the Beehive House he [Florence] said to [Isaac] Russell: ‘Well, this may not amount to very much, but you just ought to see what is on the other side of that curtain.'” Ben E. Rich to Joseph F. Smith, 4 Oct. 1911.

Beehive House, main floor, southeast corner room.

Southeast corner of old Annex, ninety feet north of temple.

Two of the three skylights above the ninety-foot long underground passage leading from the old Annex into the basement of the temple. See

Sword in sheath and folding chair at bottom of stairs just inside door to Garden Room annex. At a certain point in the ceremony, “a sword is waved through the curtain” in the Garden Room.

Baptismal font in temple basement. Note rolled up rag rugs on ox horns.

First floor (basement). One of ten washing and anointing rooms. Behind the door is the baptismal font. For

First floor (basement). Creation Room (Lower Lecture Room) looking south before the walls were painted with murals. The door leads directly into the Garden of Eden Room.

First floor (basement). Garden of Eden Room from the southeast corner looking north. The entrance from the Creation Room portal is to the left.

First floor (basement). Garden of Eden Room from southwest corner looking northeast. The light on the back (north) wall is from the Garden Room annex, which is behind the altar to the right.

First floor (basement). Altar at south end of Garden of Eden Room. To the right and left are portals leading to the conservatory (greenhouse) in the Garden Room annex. S

Second floor. Telestial or World Room, from near altar looking east through partially opened sliding doors into upper level of grand staircase, from which this room is entered.

Second floor. Telestial or World Room, from southwest corner looking at north wall.

Second floor. Telestial or World Room from east entry (see No. 65) looking northwest. The door on the right enters the Terrestrial Room.

Second floor. From east end of Celestial Room looking southwest into Terrestrial Room. The veil, which normally hangs from the partition, has been removed for cleaning.

Second floor. East Sealing Room (for the living) from door between it and Celestial Room.

Second floor. Reception room south of East Sealing Room, looking south

Second floor. Statuary group in northeast corner of Celestial Room. From top: woman with torch; cherubs; Joseph Smith, right, and Hyrum Smith, left; Father and Son appearing to Joseph Smith (kneeling), flanked by women reading.

Second floor. Furniture in Celestial Room. The door in the rear enters the Holy of Holies sealing room.

Third (Administrative) floor. Dome Room in southeast corner of third floor. This is the extended ceiling of the Holy of Holies. “In the center appears a large dome, fifty-one feet in circumference at its base and seven feet high. This is set with seventeen jeweled windows.” Talmage, p. 194.

Third (Administrative) floor. Council Room of the Twelve Apostles, from the east wall looking west toward the blocked door into the Council Room of the Seventy. See Talmage, Plate 32, McAllister, p. 17, and Hamilton and Cutrubus, pp. 132-33.

Third (Administrative) floor. Council Room of the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles, looking toward east wall. Note top of a spittoon between the chairs.

Third (Administrative) floor. Council Room of the First Presidency and Twelve Apostles, from northwest corner looking southeast. Note spittoon at left. McAllister, p. 21, shows the spittoon on the left and another at the base of the right table leg at the far right. For Plate 33 in Talmage, Ralph Savage removed spittoons and retook the exposure.

Third (Administrative) floor. Bossard standing in front of Memorial Window in Memorial Window Room, looking north. See Talmage, Plate 34. Florence stated in the 18 September 1911 issue of the Salt Lake Tribune : “In one room he [Bossard] wanted a picture that was a good one and he stacked two chairs up, one on top of the other, and put his camera on top of them, and as the room was dark it was to be a slow exposure, why he walked around in front and had his own picture taken in the room.”

High Council Room from north side looking south toward the back side of the Memorial Window.

No. 92. Fourth floor. West end of Main Assembly Room. Aaronic priesthood stand and pulpits. Note that the upholstered terraced seats are covered with canvas for cleaning.

No. 90. Fourth floor. Northwest corner of Main Assembly Room, bathed in June sunlight.

No. 94. Roof of temple from east end looking west

An exterior black-and-white photograph of the Salt Lake temple, circa 1911, probably by Ralph Savage about the same time he took interior photographs of the temple to accompany James Talmage’s House of the Lord.