Glen Canyon Dam site before and after construction - repeat photos taken in 1889 and 1992

Side-by-side repeat photographic images of the Glen Canyon Dam site on the Colorado River. The first is a historic image taken on December 23, 1889, at River Mile Mile -14.7. The view is taken upstream from river left in 1889 by Franklin A. Nims during the Stanton Expedition. Original image courtesy of The National Archives, #57-RS-235, public domain. The second image was taken by the USGS on October 29, 1992, by Robert Webb. Stake (camera point) s2638 in the SBSC’s Southwest Repeat Photography Collection.