Charles Roscoe Savage

Charles Roscoe Savage (1832-1909) was a British born photographer who produced images of the American West.

Savage came to the United States in 1858, as part of the immigration of European converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He initially found work as a photographer in New York City, and headed west the following year. He first settled in Nebraska, then Iowa, and finally traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah where he established a photography studio with a partner in 1860.

Well known Savage images include pictures of the Great Basin tribes, epecially the Paiute and Shoshone. As a photographer for the Union Pacific Railroad, Savage traveled to California in 1866 and then followed the rails back to Promontory Summit, at Promontory, Utah where the Union Pacific and Central Pacific met in 1869.