Sampson's Fleet. U.S. Battleship "Oregon", Forward Deck
William H. Rau
1898
Medium
Albumen print, stereo
Dimensions
Each image: 8.2 × 17.7 cm (3 1/4 × 7 in.); Card: 8.6 × 17.7 cm (3 7/16 × 7 in.)
Classification
photography
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
199679
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...