Details
Title William H. Rau, president. Photographers for the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Rau Art Studios, Inc., photographers, 238 South Camac St., Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1910
Date [ca. 1910]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; 6 x 10 cm. (2.25 x 4 in.)
Description Illustrated business card depicting tiny embossed orange vignettes of an owl, lion, bird and instruments within an oval formed by a single orange line. Rau served as the official photographer for the Pennsylvania Railroad beginning in 1891 and the Lehigh Valley Railroad in 1895. Rau, a professional Philadelphia photographer, began his career as assistant to Philadelphia photographer William Bell; served as the primary photographer of E.L. Wilson's Middle East photographic expedition (1881-1882); and was sole proprietor of a prolific photographic studio that issued lantern slides, stereographs, and photographs between 1887 and 1920. He was also official photographer of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904, a director of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia, a president of the Pennsylvania Photographic Society, and a member of the Pennsylvania Academy of Natural Sciences.
Notes Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920.
Photographers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Trade cards -- 1900-1910.
Business cards -- 1900-1910.
Lithographs -- 1900-1910.
Embossed prints -- 1900-1910.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Rau [P.9548.7]
Accession number P.9548.7