摩门教移民列车，回声峡谷 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	摩门教移民列车，回声峡谷
品名（英）	Mormon Emigrant Train, Echo Canyon
入馆年号	1999年，2005.100.101
策展部门	摄影（Photographs）
创作者	Charles William Carter【1832 至 1918】【美国人，出生于英国】
创作年份	公元 1868 - 公元 1872
创作地区
分类	照片（Photographs）
尺寸	图像: 6.1 × 10.3 厘米 (2 3/8 × 4 1/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	查尔斯·卡特出生于伦敦，在英国陆军当兵时学习摄影。1859年，他搬到犹他州的盐湖城，很快加入了他的同胞和摩门教徒查尔斯·罗斯科·萨维奇的工作室。此后不久，他开设了卡特观景商场（Carter's View Emporium），以迎合杨百翰（Brigham Young）神权统治的德塞莱特州（Deseet）迅速增长的摩门教徒群体。从1850年到1870年，盐湖城的人口平均每年增长33%，令人惊讶；到1870年，有86000名居民，在20年内增加了75000多人这是卡特为出售给摩门教拓荒者而制作的作品的典型代表。在教会的敦促下，数千名寻求更好生活的新皈依者乘坐有篷货车前往美国各地，并在杨氏永久移民基金的部分资助下，移居犹他州。在通往西部的众多小道中，摩门教小道在边境人口增长中发挥了最大的作用。卡特照片的背景是几根电线杆，证实了即使是早期的西方通讯也跟随着定居者。回声峡谷（Echo Canyon）是步道尽头的两个山口之一，就在盐湖城外。1847年夏天，杨首次带领他的一小队追随者穿过这条山口。
介绍（英）	Born in London, Charles Carter learned photography as a soldier in the British Army. In 1859 he moved to Salt Lake City in the Territory of Utah and soon joined the studio of his countryman and fellow Mormon Charles Roscoe Savage. Shortly thereafter he opened Carter's View Emporium, which catered to the rapidly growing Mormon community in Brigham Young's theocratic State of Deseret. From 1850 to 1870 the population of Salt Lake City grew on the average an astonishing 33 percent each year; by 1870 there were 86,000 residents, an increase of more than 75,000 people in two decades. This view of a train of Conestoga wagons, or prairie schooners as they were known, is typical of the work Carter produced for sale to the Mormon pioneers. Urged by the church to emigrate to Utah, and partially aided by Young's Perpetual Emigration Fund, thousands of new converts in search of a better life set out across the country in covered wagons. Of the many trails leading west, the Mormon Trail played the largest role in the growth of population along the frontier. In the background of Carter's photograph are several telegraph poles, confirmation that even early Western communication followed the settlers. Echo Canyon is one of the two mountain passes at the very end of the trail, just outside Salt Lake City, through which Young first directed his small band of followers in the summer of 1847.