Another Beautiful Day Has Dawned Upon Us consists of handcrafted, kiln-cast glass with silvering on the back. Selected diary passages from the Library’s private collection about the westward migration are applied to the back of the kiln-cast glass and are visible through the face. The work was commissioned by the State of Utah as part of Utah’s Percent-for-Art Program.

The diary passages are portrayed in their original handwritten form with the grammar and punctuation unchanged. Following are selected excerpts for each mural.

First Floor
– you shall be endowed with all the wisdom knowledge and understanding that your heart can deserve to accomplish all you seek
– Where we stopped for the night, making a distance of 28 miles today
– Another beautiful day has dawned upon us
– July 3 Prayer breakfast started about 8 oclock

Second Floor
– The roads are very bad, it is impossible to travel a great distance in a day.
– Still raining hard this morning, looks rather gloomy for travelers.
– were it not that “God is with his people” the thoughts of saints traveling over such a road would be almost unbearable.
– We got out and the coach broke through the ice.
– Friday Feb 26th Crossed Bridger’s Pass in the night very cold, had to walk a great deal.
– The weather Friday has been varied and changeable sunshine and showers
– This great river is what I love
– May joy and peace your steps attend. As journeying to that golden land.

Third Floor
– Claudine was almost frantic with joy
– As we travelled eastward the country seemed more prosperous, with less evidence of war.
– We stopped for dinner by the side of the road
– Thy goodness and kindness I never forget
– My heart doth breaks
– Dear Sister I must leave the. And go to distant land to dwell. How hard it is to part with the. And say farewell Farewell.
– Saw very large herd of Antelope in the Black Hills to-day It commenced snowing and was very cold.
– The boys bought two chickens

Fourth Floor
– The lord was very good to his people and blest us with a good passage
– two men and a women each over 8 feet in height, but the greatest curiosity was Barnum himself.
– The Hotel was full of strangers from various parts of the country.
– A company went to hunt killed one buffalo Joe lent my six shooter pistal to B Baker and he lost it.