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Title: Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad: The Photographs of William H. Rau by William Herman Rau, John C. Van Horne, Eileen E. Drelick, Kenneth Finkel, Mary Panzer, John R. Stilgoe ISBN: 0-8122-3625-4 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: 10 March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: Rau's Look at the PRR
Comment: William H Rau (1855-1920), one of Philadelphia's preeminent photographers, was commissioned by the PRR in 1890 to photograph hundreds of scenes along its lines in order to promote travel by the general public. This book contains 87 of his 463 original images, which are owned by American Premerier Underwriters, Inc., sucessor firm to the Penn Central and PRR railroads, and on deposit with The Library Company of Philadelphia.
John R. Stilgoe, Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape at Harvard expresses in one of the book's three essays, "These photographs glisten with an energy born of opening, not the opening of pioneers opening the forest nor the opening of the first half-century of railroad technology, but the opening of wholly constructed, wholly controlled, scheduled and maintained, wholly artifical space."
Rau was a world class photographer and this is a fine selection of his PRR work. Therefore, it would be difficult to rate this book as anything other than first class.
These are excerpts from my complete review of this book, which will appear in a future edition of "The Keystone," the official quarterly publication of the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society (PRRT&HS).

Alan B. Buchan
Member, Board of Directors - PRRT&HS

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