In 1910, Rainbow Bridge became the Nation’s 12th National Monument.   A visitor’s log, the “Rainbow Bridge Register”, was installed such that those hardy souls that visited the remote bridge could sign their name and forever stamp their presence in place and time.

The aformentioned records survive today and for the last two decades Tom Martin has been systematically attempting to contact those select few, or their heirs, who signed the Rainbow Bridge Register before the rise of Lake Powell in 1963. This pursuit is one of preservation of the irreplaceable pictures of a pre-reservoir Glen Canyon for which, if he’s lucky enough to make a connection, Tom then tediously scans into electronic form and, if granted permission, shares with a world that will never know this Glen Canyon.

This is his work….