Letter from J. Frank Pickering, 9 September 1892 [LE-41586]

[FIGURE] GIBSON CO. DENVER J. Frank Pickering's MIRROR OF UTAH World's Fair Vaudevilles. Payson, Utah Sept 9th 1892.

Mirror of Utah. J. Frank Pickering's MIRROR OF UTAH consists of twenty artistic paintings, each seven by eleven feet in size, covering all the principal points of interest in the Territory.

Realistic scenes of pioneer days and of Utah's early history, fine views of lake and mountain scenery, prominent buildings, the mining and manufacturing industries of the territory all have a place in this panorama.

A company of musical and comedy artists will acompany the entertainment and the route will include all the principal towns and cities of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and states east and it is also proposed to locate in Chicago during the World's Fair.

A good opportunity for live advertisers presents itself in the drop curtain for the MIRROR OF UTAH. This curtain will contain a correct picture of the World's Fair buildings and grounds and around this scene will be spaces for advertising cards, each about two by three feet in size. But very few firms can be represented on this curtain and our propositions are made only to the leading manufacturers and dealers of the Territory. If you are given the opportunity to represent your business thereon, you should take advantage of it as thousands of intelligent people will see this curtain, and it is advertising which they can't fail to see and read.

The tour will be commenced early next month and about one hundred Utah towns will be visited before leaving for the East.

Dear Bro:-

As I have been requested by one or two bishops and also by one of our stake presidency to present my entertainment in their respective meeting houses, I write to ask what you think of my plan. My panorama consists of twenty scenes of Utah scenes and early Church History and is designed (on my Eastern tour especially) to counter act and disprove many of the false statements made against Utah and her people. Kindly note enclosed clipping and list of scenes and write me as soon as possible whether you consider the entertainment worthy of the patronage of the Mormon people generally

[FIGURE] GIBSON CO. DENVER

J. Frank Pickering's MIRROR OF UTAH World's Fair Vaudevilles. Payson, Utah, 189[2]

Mirror of Utah. J. Frank Pickering's MIRROR OF UTAH consists of twenty artistic paintings, each seven by eleven feet in size, covering all the principal points of interest in the Territory.

Realistic scenes of pioneer days and of Utah's early history, fine views of lake and mountain scenery, prominent buildings, the mining and manufacturing industries of the territory all have a place in this panorama.

A company of musical and comedy artists will accompany the entertainment and the route will include all the principal towns and cities of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado and states east and it is also proposed to locate in Chicago during the World's Fair.

A good opportunity for live advertisers presents itself in the drop curtain for the MIRROR OF UTAH. This curtain will contain a correct picture of the World's Fair buildings and grounds and around this scene will be spaces for advertising cards, each about two by three feet in size. But very few firms can be represented on this curtain and our propositions are made only to the leading manufacturers and dealers of the Territory. If you are given the opportunity to represent your business thereon, you should take advantage of it as thousands of intelligent people will see this curtain, and it is advertising which they can't fail to see and read.

The tour will be commenced early next month and about one hundred Utah towns will be visited before leaving for the East.

and of the support of the officers of the wards in the way I suggested in opening my letter. If so, I will try to arrange my plans so that the entertainment can be given under the auspices of the M.M.M.I.A. or other associations of each ward as much as possible instead of working in the usual routine of "shows."

An early reply will oblige, Your Bro in the gospel Frank Pickering.