Second View: The Rephotographic Survey Project

Conceived and directed in 1977 by Ellen Manchester, Mark Klett, and JoAnn Verburg, Second View: The Rephotographic Survey Project is a three-year effort to locate and rephotograph sites from late 19th-century government surveys. Using original photographs by figures such as Timothy O'Sullivan and William Henry Jackson alongside government maps and notes, the project identified 120 original sites. Photographers then captured new images that matched the originals in both angle and light. The resulting publication presents these 120 matched pairs, printed in duotone, providing a visual record of how weather, progress, and time have altered the Western landscape over more than a century.