John R. Charlton

About The Author

John R. Charlton was for many years a photographer with the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas. He provided the rephotographs for Donald L. Baars’s The Canyon Revisited: A Rephotography of the Grand Canyon, 1923/1991.

Books by John R. Charlton

Railroad Empire across the Heartland

Rephotographing Alexander Gardner's Westward Journey

Photographs by John R. Charlton
Best known for his Civil War photographs, Alexander Gardner also documented the construction of the Union Pacific Railway, Eastern Division (later the Kansas Pacific Railroad), across Kansas beginning in 1867. This book presents recent photographs by John R. Charlton of the scenes Gardner recorde...
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