3/20/2023 0 Comments Salt lake city time![]() The books, photos, letters and notes, on the other hand, suffered significant water damage because they were surrounded by cement. Some of them appear to have been done professionally and some of them like someone just scratched their name onto a nickel.” ![]() We have dimes, we have one penny and we have a couple of nickels that were engraved. “We have some coins that had been ground down on one side so that a person’s name could be engraved. “One of the really delightful things was finding coins that had been engraved,” said Emiline Twitchell, a conservator at the Church History Library. Some 400 coins-mostly nickels and dimes, some pennies, a few quarters-have been found inside the concrete. sl-temple-capstone-18.jpg These coins were deposited in the capstone of the Salt Lake Temple on April 6, 1892. The Salt Lake Herald Republican report says that just minutes before the signal came to place the capstone, “every man on the platform eagerly thrust out a dime or a nickle or a quarter of a dollar” onto the bed of cement applied atop the bottom half of the stone. Some coins remain unexcavated in the concrete. Some 400 coins have been found inside the concrete - mostly nickels and dimes, some pennies, a few quarters, and six-pence, three-pence, half-dime and three-cent pieces. The gold-leafed copper plate, discovered in the north cavity, is inscribed with the names of the Church General Authorities present for the laying of the temple cornerstone on April 6, 1853, as well as the names of Church General Authorities present at the laying of the capstone on the same date in 1892. Some materials, such as a copper plate, coins and medallions are in good condition. Materials were in the north, east, south, and west portions of the capstone. ![]() Newspaper records from the time detail most of the items placed inside. The Time Capsule Contents and Their Condition ![]() "But we wanted to be there anyway, just to be close and to pay tribute to the leaders and courageous pioneer craftsman who against all odds built this magnificent temple.” sl-temple-capstone-12.jpg Emiline Twitchell, a conservator at the Church History Library, shows contents from the capstone of the Salt Lake Temple to the First Presidency on May 20, 2020. “We did not expect to find much because we knew that the contents of the capstone had not been insulated from the weather during the 128 years that had elapsed," said President Russell M. Since that time, conservation experts and stone masons have carefully cut through the capstone’s thick granite and cement - as Utt said, with small chisels - to retrieve the remainder of the treasures that have sat in several cavities within for nearly 13 decades. Indeed, two days after the capstone’s removal from the temple, the First Presidency joined a small group in the loading dock of the Church History Library to witness the initial opening of the time capsule. I don’t know if could have imagined that kind of interaction. “Our opening has been a few people on a loading dock with very small chisels. “It makes me laugh a little bit ,” said Emily Utt, historic sites curator with the Church History Department. This was done for preservation and refurbishing during the temple’s seismic upgrade that began in January 2020. A few dozen construction workers removed that same 3,800-pound circular granite capstone, along with its time capsule contents and the angel Moroni statue that has stood on top of it. A journalist atop the temple to witness the laying of the capstone, including the deposit of a time capsule within it containing books, photos, letters, paper notes, medallions and coins (one of his own included) mused “on when, how, and under whose eyes it would be exhumed in some untold age in the future.”įast-forward 128 years to May 18, 2020, a day perhaps equal in balminess but not in fanfare.
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