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Rau, William Herman (American photographer, 1855-1920)
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Note: Born 19 January 1855; died 19 November 1920. In 1874 Rau obtained a position with the United States Government Expedition to document the transit of Venus. In 1877 he formed a partnership with his father-in-law William Bell, a survey photographer. Rau purchased Bell's stereograph company in 1877, and operated it under his own name until it was purchased by Underwood and Underwood in 1901. In 1881 Rau photographed in Colorado and New Mexico. He also travelled to Egypt to photograph monuments in the 1880s. Rau was appointed in 1890 as the official photographer of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and appointed in 1895 as the official photographer of the LeHigh Valley Railroad to document views along their lines. Rau also photographed the Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood and the 1904 Baltimore fire. He was associated with the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, the American Lantern Slide Interchange, the Photographic Exchange Club of Philadelphia and the Detroit Publishing Company. American landscape photographer, Philadelphia. |
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Rau, William Herman (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA) |
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William Herman Rau (V,display) |
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Rau, William H. (V) |
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Rau, William (V) |
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Rau, W. H. (V) |
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William H. Rau (U) |
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Rau, Willem Henry (U) |
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Bell, William H. |
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(American photographer, 1830-1910) [500055414] |
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(American photographer, 1855-1920) ..... [BHA Preferred]
(American, 1855-1920) ..... [JPGM]
(American photographer; born Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States), 1855; died Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, United States), 1920) ..... [CCA]
(American photographer, 1855-1920) ..... [AVERY]
(American artist, 1855-1920) ..... [MoMA]
(American photographer, 1855-1920) ..... [RKD]
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Canadian Centre for Architecture database
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Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
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Finkel, Nineteenth-century photography in Philadelphia (1980) 218
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Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: n86110455
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Getty Vocabulary Program rules
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LCNAF Library of Congress Name Authority File [n.d.] 109
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Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: n86110455
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Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
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RKD Artists database (2000-) 375449
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Ruby, 19th-Century Pennsylvania Landscape Photography (1986) 9-11
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Sandweiss, Nineteenth-Century Photography in America (1991) 327
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Travis, Photography Rediscovered (1979)
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Wikidata online (2000-) Q8010564 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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