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Salt Lake City History Examiner
Advertisement in The city of Salt Lake! her relations as a centre of trade : manufacturing establishments and business houses : historical, descriptive and statistical. Published 1890 by Sylvannus, Stone & Shaw iAdvertisement for William Jennings Dry Goods. Salt Lake City and Utah by-ways by Edwards Roberts. Published 1883 by R. R. Donnelley and sons in Chicago . Salt Lake City, past and present by E. V. FohlinPublished 1908 4 photosView the full slideshow »
Salt Lake City: where to go and what to see. Published 1910 in Omaha .

Historic books and documents that predate 1923 and are within the public domain are becoming increasingly available in digital formats and available for free on online.  Many of these are great sources of historic information and photographs. 

Below are some of my favorite sources for historic books now within the public domain:

Open Library - Over 1 million free titles

View slideshow: Salt Lake City History: Public Domain Books
  • Open Library's goal is to provide a page on the web for every book ever published. Available in pdf and kindle versions.
  • Visit openlibrary.org.

Internet Archive - Over 2.5 million free titles

  • Internet Archive is a non-profit dedicated to offering permanent access to historical collections that exist in digital format. Provides over 2.5 million free ebooks to read, download, and enjoy.
  • Visit archive.org.
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Project Gutenberg - Over 30,000 free titles

  • Project Gutenberg, one of the original sources of free ebooks, is dedicated to the creation and distribution of eBooks.
  • Visit gutenberg.org.

     

ManyBooks.net - Over 26,000 free titles

  • ManyBooks.net provides free ebooks as a service to the Internet community at large.
  • Visit manybooks.net.



 

Pictorial reflex of Salt Lake City and vicinity By C. R. Savage 1898
Pictorial reflex of Salt Lake City and vicinity By C. R. Savage 1898
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Pictorial reflex of Salt Lake City and vicinity By C. R. Savage 1898

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Rachel Quist is a professional archaeologist living in Salt Lake City. She has extensive knowledge of the archaeology of the Great Basin, early Euro-American transportation routes, Cold War military industrial material culture, and the geomorphology of closed basin lake systems. She is the...

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