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Savage was one of the best-known photographers in Salt Lake City at that time, and his studio was on Main Street across from the temple.

However, on the back is an identifiable inscription from C.R. Laminated together due to the moisture from the concrete, no photographic image remains on the cabinet cards, Utt said. A high-quality photographic print mounted on thick paper, “They’re easy to trade, they’re easy to sell. Of the cabinet cards, Utt said these were a popular form of mounting photography in the 1890s. Though hardly legible, they are identifiable by their spine or visible print inside. The books were not rare but easy to come by during that time period, Twitchell added. “They’re putting things that are readily available and things that reflect their current life.” “The materials that are inside this particular time capsule reflect really the motivations of the people that put it together,” Utt said. Weighing 5,000 pounds or 2.5 tons and resting 160 feet high, both were carried through the air to the ground via crane for preservation and refurbishing the removal of the statue and capstone is part of the temple’s four-year structural and seismic renovation.Īs Utt and Twitchell moved around a long table displaying the contents of the capsule, they explained the significance of the items - items that may have been placed by construction workers and people who toured the scaffolding. “But we wanted to be there anyway, just to be close and to pay tribute to the leaders and courageous pioneer craftsmen who against all odds built this magnificent temple.” Opening the time capsuleĬrews removed the capstone - along with the angel Moroni statue that stood above it - from the central east spire of the Salt Lake Temple on May 18. “We did not expect to find much because we knew that the contents of the capstone had not been insulated from the weather during the 128 years that had elapsed,” said President Nelson. Pratt’s signature on the book “Voice of Warning” and pages from the Pearl of Great Price. Twitchell and Emily Utt, historic sites curator for the Church, showed the First Presidency Parley P. Twitchell pointed out the leather binding of a book and the fragments of the oilcloth it was wrapped in.

Eyring - donned masks and watched as Emiline Twitchell, conservator at the Church History Library, carefully removed items from the south compartment of the capstone. Nelson and his counselors, President Dallin H. More than 128 years later, on a morning in late May, the First Presidency - President Russell M. The ceremony signified the end of construction of the Salt Lake Temple, and the sacred building was dedicated a year later. Within moments, every man on the platform threw coins into the capstone, the article states.Ī few minutes later, a crowd of 40,000 watched as President Wilford Woodruff, fourth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, laid the capstone by pressing a button to enact an electric motor and place it in position. “There’s a dime, lay it in,” someone said. The south and east parcels were placed in concrete compartments the north and west parcels were laid directly into concrete. Just past noon on April 6, 1892, a hurried messenger arrived at the Salt Lake Temple with materials to place inside the temple’s capstone - the large granite sphere upon which the 12-foot 5-inch angel Moroni statue stands.įour parcels wrapped in silk oilcloth were carefully laid in the north, south, east and west parts of the capstone, according to an article in the Salt Lake Herald-Republican published the following day.