Eavesdroppers Dropped
1896-1903
Medium
Photography-Photoprint
Classification
Photography-Photoprint
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum Purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment
Accession Number
1994.91.240
Tags
About the Artist
William H. Rau
William Herman Rau (1855–1920) was an American photographer renowned for his luminous large-format landscape photographs of Pennsylvania and the American railroad. Born in Philadelphia, he learned photography as a teenager and by twenty had already participated in a U.S. government expedition to observe the transit of Venus in Tasmania. He later accompanied expeditions to photograph in Siberia and...