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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SCAPUT_160714_018.JPG: Mormon Battalion Monument Closed for Renovation
2. SCAPUT_160714_035.JPG: Note the beehive on the bollards
3. SCAPUT_160714_049.JPG: Martha Hughes Cannon 1857-1932
4. SCAPUT_160714_061.JPG: Brigadier General Thomas Kane
5. SCAPUT_160714_064.JPG: In the year 1857, James Buchanan, then President of the United States, believing certain unfounded rumors that Utah Territorial Governor Brigham Young and other Utah Territorial officers were in open rebellion against federal authority in Utah, sent to Utah an armed force of 25 hundred men, known as Johnston's Army, to maintain federal authority. On being advised of the threatened invasions of his friends' homeland, Thomas L. Kane against the wishes of President Buchanan, a friend of the Kane family, and his father, Judge John K. Kane, decided to again go to the aid of his Mormon friends. He sailed down the Atlantic Ocean, crossed the Isthmus of Panama, sailed up the Pacific Ocean to San Francisco, then traveled by horse and wagon to Salt Lake City. Through his efforts peace was established and a great blessing brought thereby to the pioneering people of this territory.
6. SCAPUT_160714_070.JPG: Following the days of their severest persecutions in the winter of 1846-7 when the Mormon pioneers, driven from their beloved city of Nauvoo, Illinois by mob violence, were scattered across the frozen plains of Iowa, there came into their midst a young man, Thomas L. Kane, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who expressed a desire to assist them in their suffering. Through the Christian and economic benefactions of Thomas L. Kane and his father Judge John K. Kane, United States District Judge of Philadelphia, the war department at Washington, D.C. was directed by President James K. Polk to accept the enlistment of the Mormon Battalion of 500 men in the war with Mexico who under the command of Lt. Col. P. St. George Cooke marched to California, built Fort Moore at Los Angeles and aided in establishing American sovereignty in Southern California. The government money paid the Battalion members was used to feed and clothe the destitute Mormons in Iowa and this with their indomitable faith and perseverance enabled them to make their migration to the Salt Lake Valley in July, 1847. Later, on January 24, 1848, while several mustered-out Mormon Battalion soldiers were digging a mill race at Sutters Mill on the American River near Sacramento, California, gold was discovered which resulted in the California gold rush of 1849 which brought statehood to California in 1850.
7. SCAPUT_160714_075.JPG: Ortho Fairbanks, 1957
8. SCAPUT_160714_093.JPG: DANIEL COWAN JACKLING World renowned Mining and Metallurgical Engineer, Eminent Business Executive, Benefactor and loyal friend of Utah and its people. Guided by an inspired vision, he applied and developed processes for the beneficiation of low-grade porphyritic ores and originated copper mining methods, revolutionary in character and on a scale never before attempted, resulting in the production world-wide of new wealth in the form of precious metals, copper and other essential minerals in quantities never before attained in the history of man. He assembled the now world famed Utah Copper Mine in nearby Bingham Canyon and in the course of his research implemented and developed that property from a body of supposedly worthless porphyry rock into the world's greatest copper producer of all time. His civic services with relation to the great economic and political projects in which his unerring judgment and masterful direction provided superb leadership, have left their imperishable imprints upon the growth and development of the State of Utah. As an everlasting memorial and outward expression of the love and appreciation which the people of Utah entertain for him, The National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers, with the cooperation of the Utah Copper Division of Kennecott Copper Corporation, presents to the State of Utah this Statue of Daniel Cowan Jackling.
9. SCAPUT_160714_098.JPG: Copper production has been a major factor in Utah's industrial development and prosperity. In 59 years of operation at the Bingham Canyon Mine, 1,354,772,000 tons of waste were removed, 926,065,000 tons of ore were mined and 16,873,244,000 pounds of copper were produced. Expenditures totaled $2,767,625,000 - $839,558,000 in taxes; $658,745,000 for payrolls and $1,269,322,000 in supplies and services.
10. SCAPUT_160714_100.JPG: DANIEL COWAN JACKLING STATUE Erected August 14, 1954 under the direction of the honorable Lamont F. Toronto, Secretary of State of Utah by the Daniel Cowan Jackling Memorial Commission appointed by Governor J. Bracken Lee, March 27, 1953. Nicholas G. Morgan, Sr., Chairman, President of the National Society of the Sons of Utah Pioneers, E.R. Callister, Jr., Attorney General for State of Utah, Raymond C. Wilson, Sr. Vice President, First Security Bank of Utah; Wilson R. Hunter, President Council of the Seventy, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church, Lewis Buchman, Retired General Manager division Kennecott Copper Corporation.
11. SCAPUT_160714_104.JPG: Avard Fairbanks, 1954
12. SCAPUT_160714_122.JPG: De Graffenried, 2008
13. SCAPUT_160714_126.JPG: Marriner Stoddard Eccles September 9, 1890 - December 18, 1977 Businessman * Banker * Philanthropist
14. SCAPUT_160715_03.JPG: Flags were half-mast due to the terrorist attack on Nice, France on July 14 which killed 86 and injured 414.
15. SCAPUT_160715_15.JPG: The Beehive symbol of industry, the motto of the citizens of Utah, presented to the State of Utah by the Utah Copper Division of the Kennecott Copper Corporation July 24, 1976 and through the efforts of Lieutenant Governor Secretary of State Clyde L. Miller.
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Wikipedia Description: Utah State Capitol
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The Utah State Capitol is located on Capitol Hill, overlooking downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the home of the Utah State Legislature, the Governor of Utah, Lieutenant Governor of Utah, the Utah Attorney General, the Utah State Treasurer, and the Utah State Auditor.

Construction on the capitol began on December 26, 1912 and was dedicated on October 9, 1916. The building is 404 feet (123 m) long, 240 feet (73 m) wide, and is capped by a dome that reaches 286 feet (87 m). The granite used was quarried in Little Cottonwood Canyon, and the dome is covered in copper mined in Utah. The original construction cost was $2,739,538.00. In 2004 the capitol closed for an extensive restoration and seismic upgrade. The capitol was rededicated on January 4, 2008, and was opened to the public the next day.

The building is the centerpiece of a 40 acre plot which also includes a Vietnam War memorial and a monument dedicated to the Mormon Battalion. The renovations added a new plaza, a reflecting pool, and two office buildings, as well as underground parking. The grounds feature plants, shrubs, and trees native to Utah, as well as stunning views of Salt Lake City and the Wasatch Front.

The interior has three floors plus a former basement level which now hold base isolators meant to make the building more resistant to earthquakes. The captiol is decorated with many paintings and sculptues of Utah's history and heritage, including statues of Brigham Young, first territorial governor, and Philo T. Farnsworth, Utah native and inventor of television. The floors are made of marble from Georgia. Twenty-four Ionic columns line the central hall connecting the two wings on either side of the dome, each of which weighs about 25,000 lb. A chandelier weighing 6,000 lb hangs from the rotunda of the central dome. The chain supporting it weighs an additional 7,000 lb.

Utah Territorial Statehouse in Filmore was the territory's first capitol building, although it was only used for that purpose for one year. Starting in 1866 the Salt Lake City Council Hall was the meeting place for the Utah Territorial legislature. When statehood was granted in 1896 until the present Utah State Capitol was completed, the Salt Lake City and County Building served as the state's first capitol building.

In film:

In Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde the Utah State Capitol was used for exterior and interior shots of the U.S. Capitol.
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