William H. Rau
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William Herman Rau was an American photographer who was active primarily in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered for his stereo cards of sites around the world,
Rau in 1904
Rau's 1899 photograph of Dewey Arch in Manhattan
Rau's 1900 photograph of the Eiffel Tower at night
Rau's portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, c. 1912
Lehigh Valley Railroad
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The Lehigh Valley Railroad was a railroad in the Northeastern United States built predominantly to haul anthracite coal from the Coal Region in Northeastern Pennsylvania to major consumer markets in P
William H. Rau
…Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy. In 1889, he accompanied travel writer John Lawson Stoddard on a tour of Mexico. Rau was hired by the Lehigh Valley Railroad to photograph scenic views along the railroad's route in 1891, and became the railroad's official photographer in 1895. He spent a significant portion…
An 1860 illustration of the Lehigh Valley Railroad's unusual double-decker bridge, which crosses the Delaware River in Easton
Lehigh Valley Railroad's Barge 79, now a museum in South Brooklyn
A share of the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company issued February 9, 1892
Lehigh Valley Railroad's Black Diamond in 1898