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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Rau, William H. Creator Nationality: American Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1855 - 1920 Biography: William H. Rau American, 1855-1920William Herman Rau was a Philadelphian with close ties to that city's photographic activities. The son of photographer George Rau, William married Louise Bell, daughter of photographer William Bell. He had worked for Bell until purchasing his father-in-law's company in 1878. Louise Bell Rau later exhibited her own work in pictorialist circles. Among Rau's other associates were his brother George, with whom he opened a photographic studio in 1885, the well-known photographic publisher Edward L. Wilson, and John Moran, brother of landscape artist Thomas Moran. In 1874 Rau had joined an international expedition to the South Seas to photograph the transit of Venus, working with John Moran on the project. He then worked intermittently in the southwest United States, including a period with William Henry Jackson. In 1881 he accompanied Edward Wilson to Egypt, where he made an extensive set of stereoviews and possibly some larger prints, although these have never been identified. He worked in Philadelphia during the Centennial Exposition of 1876 and was later the official photographer for the St. Louis Exposition of 1904 and the 1905 Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland. Best known for his railroad and landscape images, Rau was hired in 1890 by the Pennsylvania Railroad and in 1899 by the Lehigh Valley Railroad, for which he produced a series of views from Perth Amboy, New Jersey, to Buffalo and Niagara Falls. He also recorded the Johnstown flood and the 1904 Baltimore fire. Today, Rau is important for his position linking, through subject and style, key aspects of photography in the 19th and 20th centuries. T.W.F. Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Philadelphia, PA Creator Death Place: Philadelphia, PA Creator Name-CRT: William H. Rau Title: Hemlock Forest, Lehigh Valley Railroad Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1890 Creation End Date: 1900 Creation Date: c. 1895 Object Type: Photographs Classification Term: Photograph Materials and Techniques: albumen print from wet collodion negative Dimensions: Image: 43.2cm x 51.8cm, Mounted: 43.5cm x 52.5cm Inscriptions: printed in white at bottom of image; "630 HEMLOCK FOREST LV.R.R." "WILLIAM H. RAU, PHILA" AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 2002.50 Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund Rights: http://www.clevelandart.org/museum/disclaim2.html Style or Period: America, 19th century AMICA ID: CMA_.2002.50 AMICA Library Year: 2003 Media Metadata Rights: AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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