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Mormon Tabernacle with Sea Gull Monument in foreground, Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1935

Subjects
ChurchesMonuments & MemorialsReligious & Devotional Life
Card type
Linen
Date
c. 1930 (White Border)
Front of Mormon Tabernacle with Sea Gull Monument in foreground, Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1935, Salt Lake Tabernacle, UT, USA, c. 1930 linen postcard
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Back of Mormon Tabernacle with Sea Gull Monument in foreground, Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1935, Salt Lake Tabernacle, UT, USA, c. 1930 linen postcard
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The vast oval roof of the Mormon Tabernacle dominates the view, with the temple block's trees and the Sea Gull Monument column in the foreground and the Wasatch foothills rising behind. The Salt Lake Tabernacle, completed in 1867 on Temple Square, was built of timber lattice and plaster to seat several thousand people and is famed for its nearly perfect acoustics and its long-serving pipe organ. The monument in the foreground commemorates the seagulls that, according to Latter-day Saint tradition, devoured a cricket plague threatening the pioneers' 1848 crops.

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5963. Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Utah Sea Gull Monument in Foreground --- MORMON TABERNACLE This is one of the largest structures for religious worship in the world. It is 150 feet by 250 feet and 80 feet high. Visitors are welcome to attend services provided they remain until close of same, lasting about two hours. SEE EUROPE IF YOU WILL BUT SEE AMERICA FIRST THIS SPACE FOR MESSAGE POST CARD ADDRESS STAMP
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Series5963
ConditionVery good
Place depictedSalt Lake Tabernacle, UT
Place mentionedMormon Tabernacle
NotesWhite border; visible linen-like textured stock; printed card number 5963 at upper left. No postmark. Divided-back "POST CARD" with printed Mormon Tabernacle description and "See America First" seal; white border, linen-textured stock; small paper scuff on message side, faint pencil "50" on address side.

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Mormon Tabernacle with Sea Gull Monument in foreground, Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1935, postcard, c. 1930. PostalPast Collection. https://postalpast.com/postcard/mormon-tabernacle-with-sea-gull-monument-in-foreground-salt. Accessed October 24, 2026.