Author: William H. Rau (Photo)
Title: The Gorge of Miles Canyon, the Klondike: Sold Only by Universal View Co. (Stereograph)
Description: Philadelphia : William H. Rau, [1900]. 7 x 3.5 inches. Very Good. Stereoscope images mounted on card. Light wear and toning to card from age, images fine. Extremely Scarce. William Herman Rau (January 19, 1855 - November 19, 1920) was an American photographer, active primarily in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best remembered for his stereo cards of sites around the world, and for his panoramic photographs of sites along the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was official photographer of the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, and of the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland in 1905. In 1877 William H. Rau, the son of Philadelphia photographer George Rau, purchased the stereograph company of his father-in-law, William Bell, a photographer with the U. S. Geological Survey. The company was acquired by Underwood & Underwood in 1901. .

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