Vosburg Tunnel, Pennsylvania
William H. Rau, Vosburg Tunnel, Pennsylvania, ca. 1890, albumen silver print, Gift of Fae Heath Batten, public domain, 1995.45.1
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- Title
Vosburg Tunnel, Pennsylvania
- Artist
- Date
ca. 1890
- Medium
albumen silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 17 1/16 in x 20 3/8 in; sheet: 17 3/8 in x 20 3/4 in
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Fae Heath Batten
- Accession Number
1995.45.1
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
William H. Rau completed many landscape assignments in the late nineteenth century, some more unusual than others. Early in his career, he photographed for a U.S. government-sponsored survey charting the path of Venus as it passed in front of the sun. After extended photographic assessments of the American Rocky Mountains and Egypt, he opened a studio in Philadelphia. Between 1890 and 1895, Rau served as the official photographer of Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley Railroad. This view from the project depicts the Vosburg Tunnel. Completed in 1886, the 3,900-foot tunnel circumvented a five-mile bend in the Susquehanna River, shortening the railroad’s route by more than four miles.
- Exhibitions
2011 One Woman’s Legacy: Selections from the Fae Heath Batten Photography Bequest Portland Art Museum
