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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

recognizing faces, women's portraits, Salt Lake City, county building

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Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Art

Abstract

Sixteen women’s portraits grace the capitals of four piers at the two main entrances to the Salt Lake City and County Building, a building which though controversial at the time, serves today as the icon of the city’s logo. Much like the details on the sandstone from which they were carved, their names have disappeared with time and only so much can be restored. My paper, which I presented as my senior thesis on April 6, 2012 at the BYU Museum of Art, explored who these women were, why they merited a prominent position on the building, and what their positioning said about the Mormon woman’s place in American society according to a non- Mormon perspective in the late 19th century.

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