Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad: Photographs of William H. Rau
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| Rating | : | 4.19 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812236254 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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John C. He has edited numerous volumes, including Latrobe's View of America, 1795-1820 and The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. The late James J. Eileen E. D. Drelick is Research Administrator with Blank Rome Comisky and McCauley LLP. She worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and its successors from 1966 to 1991. . was an officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical
Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker. Using a specially adapted railway car and two colossal cameras, he photographed everything from the mahogany interiors of luxury cars to freight yards, tunnels, and switch towers. From The New Yorker In the eighteen-nineties, William H. Rau, a leading Philadelphia photographer, turned an advertising assignment for the Pennsylvania Railroad into a major artistic project. His grandest effects are achieved in meticulously composed studies of the landscape traversed by the railroad—a panorama in the Allegheny Mountains, a log boom on the Susquehanna, the arches of Conestoga Bridge mirrored in the creek below—but in Rau's lens even the most ordinary railway junction becomes a Euclidean marvel of intertwining lines
Alan B. Buchan said Rau's Look at the PRR. William H Rau (1855-19"Rau's Look at the PRR" according to Alan B. Buchan. William H Rau (1855-1920), one of Philadelphia's preeminent photographers, was commissioned by the PRR in 1890 to photograph hundreds of scenes along its lines in order to promote travel by the general public. This book contains 87 of his Rau's Look at the PRR Alan B. Buchan William H Rau (1855-1920), one of Philadelphia's preeminent photographers, was commissioned by the PRR in 1890 to photograph hundreds of scenes along its lines in order to promote travel by the general public. This book contains 87 of his 463 original images, which are owned by American Premerier Underwriters, Inc., sucessor firm to the Penn Central and PRR railroads, and on deposit with The Library Company of Philadelphia. John R. Stilgoe, Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard expresses in one of the book's three. 6Rau's Look at the PRR William H Rau (1855-1920), one of Philadelphia's preeminent photographers, was commissioned by the PRR in 1890 to photograph hundreds of scenes along its lines in order to promote travel by the general public. This book contains 87 of his Rau's Look at the PRR Alan B. Buchan William H Rau (1855-1920), one of Philadelphia's preeminent photographers, was commissioned by the PRR in 1890 to photograph hundreds of scenes along its lines in order to promote travel by the general public. This book contains 87 of his 463 original images, which are owned by American Premerier Underwriters, Inc., sucessor firm to the Penn Central and PRR railroads, and on deposit with The Library Company of Philadelphia. John R. Stilgoe, Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard expresses in one of the book's three. 63 original images, which are owned by American Premerier Underwriters, Inc., sucessor firm to the Penn Central and PRR railroads, and on deposit with The Library Company of Philadelphia. John R. Stilgoe, Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard expresses in one of the book's three. original images, which are owned by American Premerier Underwriters, Inc., sucessor firm to the Penn Central and PRR railroads, and on deposit with The Library Company of Philadelphia. John R. Stilgoe, Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard expresses in one of the book's three. 0), one of Philadelphia's preeminent photographers, was commissioned by the PRR in 1890 to photograph hundreds of scenes along its lines in order to promote travel by the general public. This book contains 87 of his Rau's Look at the PRR Alan B. Buchan William H Rau (1855-1920), one of Philadelphia's preeminent photographers, was commissioned by the PRR in 1890 to photograph hundreds of scenes along its lines in order to promote travel by the general public. This book contains 87 of his 463 original images, which are owned by American Premerier Underwriters, Inc., sucessor firm to the Penn Central and PRR railroads, and on deposit with The Library Company of Philadelphia. John R. Stilgoe, Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard expresses in one of the book's three. 6Rau's Look at the PRR William H Rau (1855-1920), one of Philadelphia's preeminent photographers, was commissioned by the PRR in 1890 to photograph hundreds of scenes along its lines in order to promote travel by the general public. This book contains 87 of his Rau's Look at the PRR Alan B. Buchan William H Rau (1855-1920), one of Philadelphia's preeminent photographers, was commissioned by the PRR in 1890 to photograph hundreds of scenes along its lines in order to promote travel by the general public. This book contains 87 of his 463 original images, which are owned by American Premerier Underwriters, Inc., sucessor firm to the Penn Central and PRR railroads, and on deposit with The Library Company of Philadelphia. John R. Stilgoe, Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard expresses in one of the book's three. 63 original images, which are owned by American Premerier Underwriters, Inc., sucessor firm to the Penn Central and PRR railroads, and on deposit with The Library Company of Philadelphia. John R. Stilgoe, Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard expresses in one of the book's three. original images, which are owned by American Premerier Underwriters, Inc., sucessor firm to the Penn Central and PRR railroads, and on deposit with The Library Company of Philadelphia. John R. Stilgoe, Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard expresses in one of the book's three. A Must have!! Rod Waggoner Excellent book, photographs are reproduced very well, history and photography enthusiasts will love this book. This book should be part of your library . 5 stars!. Excellent Patrick E. McGinnis An excellent book.
The collection includes striking views not just of railcars, tracks, and stations but also of cities and towns, bridges, ferry boats, rivers, canals, factories, residences, and hotels, mostly in Pennsylvania, but with some views also of New York, New Jersey, and Maryland.This oversize volume reproduces almost 100 of the photographs, carefully selected for their historical and artistic significance, as full-page quadtone images, capturing the impact of the originals as closely as possible. The photographs are arranged in geographical order along the various branches of the PRR, and ea