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where he proselyted and took photos. On March 27, 1910, Anderson was released from his mission, however, he stayed another year and a half while he continued proselyting and documenting the area with photography. Upon his return to
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After a seven-year absence his photographic business was unhealthy and his family life was strained. Business and money were not
Anderson's motivating forces; art and religion were. Continuing to experience financial and marital strains, Anderson tried to revive his traveling tent studio but with
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photo seminar on 11 December 1973 about his introduction to
Anderson's photographs. After attending an exhibition at the Springville Museum of Art, arranged by Rell Francis, he said "I go to shows several times a week in New York City . . . and I have rarely seen anything as impressive as those
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with LDS Church authorities for the dedication of that city's LDS temple. He spent two years in Canada, returning to
Springville in 1925. He became ill in the fall of 1927, and despite his wife's urging not to go, Anderson went with LDS Church officials to document the dedication of a temple in
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photographs. . . . It is awfully hard to astonish me. . . . The George
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booklet, which he published many years before. The last years of
Anderson's life were spent in documenting families and life in Utah Valley and traveling to newly constructed temples. In 1923 he traveled to
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