Quarrying granite for the Mormon temple, William Henry Jackson, 1872

Workmen extracting quartz monzonite from the little cottonwood stock (detached masses which have fallen from the walls of little cottonwood canyon, resting at the mouth of the canyon). The quarrying consists of splitting up the stone into blocks that can be transported to the salt lake temple construction site of the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints. Date: 1872. Collection: National Archives at College Park. Quarrying granite for the Mormon temple - NARA - 516754