Rare 1909 Salt Lake City YMCA 1st Basketball team Utah Mormon Mounted Photo SLC For Sale

This rare photograph depicts the 1909 Salt Lake City YMCA basketball team. This was the first Y.M.C.A. Basketball team in Utah.

It’s a large mounted photo. 13.5” x 16”.

Please see photos for condition. Signed by Johnson who I believe is Charles Ellis Johnson.

“Charles began to dabble in photography and in 1893 he took over the photo studio of Hyrum Sainsbury. Johnson quickly became known as the unofficial photographer of the Salt Lake City theater. He took many glamour photographs of actresses and even artistic nudes and risqué stereoviews. In 1897 he met and became friends with the actress Lydia Manreouv Montford who was performing in Salt Lake City. In 1903 Montford returned to Utah and the two left to photograph the Holy Land with the intention of selling the views at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. Johnson apparently made little money and he returned to Utah where his business was languishing. Johnson remained a studio photographer and druggist in Salt Lake City for many years. He moved to California in 1917 and died on February 21, 1926.”