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
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
William H. Rau · 1855–1920
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...