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Article: The Pennsylvania railroad photographs of William H. Rau.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
- Author:
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The railroad and photography were two technologies that truly came of age in the second half of the nineteenth century while exerting a powerful influence on each other and on the nation that embraced and sustained them. Photography afforded the railroad the means of introducing Americans to the beauty and vastness of their country, and to the advantages of travel by train--what has come to be known as the "romance of the rails." Likewise, the railroad served as a magnet for many of America's finest early photographers, drawing them across the breadth of the nation, providing them with lucrative commissions, and eliciting some of their most technically sophisticated, ...
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