Great Mormon Tabernacle and Sea-Gull Monument, Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1940

Subjects: Churches Monuments & Memorials
Card type: Linen
Date: c. 1930 (White Border)

Back of Great Mormon Tabernacle and Sea-Gull Monument, Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1940, c. 1930 linen postcard — Back

About this postcard

The card pictures the Great Mormon Tabernacle, its broad oval roof rising behind trees, with the Sea-Gull Monument's column and fountain in the foreground and the Salt Lake Temple at left. The Tabernacle, completed in 1875, served as a principal Mormon assembly hall and is famous for its acoustics and as home of the Tabernacle Choir. The Sea-Gull Monument commemorates the 1848 "miracle of the gulls," in which seagulls were said to have saved the pioneers' crops from crickets.

Postcard Details

Message · English, in pen

July 21, 1936 Greetings from Dick

PublisherDeseret Book Company

544 GREAT MORMON TABERNACLE AND SEA-GULL MONUMENT, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 55876 --- THE TABERNACLE is one of the largest structures for religious worship in the world. It is 150 by 250 feet and 80 feet high. The arches of the roof rest upon 44 stone piers and have no center support. Its seating capacity is 8,000. It contains one of the finest pipe organs in existence. POST CARD PLACE ONE CENT STAMP HERE THIS SPACE FOR ADDRESS ONLY DESERET BOOK COMPANY, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH AMERICAN ART COLORED

PostmarkedOgden, UT, July 21, 1936, 10:00

Addressed to

Mrs. Lonnie Metcalfe

Winchester, KY

Postcard record

Postmarked	July 21, 1936, 10:00, Ogden, UT
Publisher	Deseret Book Company
Series	544
Condition	Good
Place addressed	Mrs. Lonnie Metcalfe, Winchester, KY
Place depicted	Salt Lake Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, UT
Place depicted	Sea-Gull Monument, Salt Lake City, UT
Place depicted	Salt Lake Temple, Salt Lake City, UT
Place mentioned	Salt Lake City, UT
Notes	White border; linen-textured stock; corners and edges worn; light discoloration at upper left; 55876 printed at lower right. Postmark: OGDEN UTAH JUL 21 10 AM 1936 — divided-back "POST CARD" with one-cent stamp box; Curt Teich "American Art Colored" imprint; heavy foxing/brown staining across the card, toned and edge-worn.

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Great Mormon Tabernacle and Sea-Gull Monument, Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1940, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/great-mormon-tabernacle-and-sea-gull-monument-salt-lake-city-1930. Accessed October 25, 2026.