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Colliers in Mahanoy Valley. L.V.R.R.
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William H. RauAmerican Publisher · 1855–1920
All works by this person →Having been interested in photography from a young age, William H. Rau received his greatest early career boost from his association with photographer William Bell. Rau married Bell's daughter Louise, also a photographer, and in 1874 Bell secured a position for his nineteen-year-old son-in-law. Rau became the photographer for a United States government expedition traveling around the world to obse
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- 1895–1899
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Before the coming of the railroad in America, ladies' dresses and gentlemen's watches were invariably products of some cottage industry. Soon after the arrival of the railroad, businesses became dependent upon trains to rapidly move both raw and finished goods to market. The railroad made a nationwide system of manufactures possible. In heavily industrial areas such as mining or manufacturing centers, trains literally stopped at a business's "back door" to load products in the most efficient manner. This photograph of tracks running directly through a mining area illustrates the tight connection between the Lehigh Valley Railroad and the Pennsylvania coal mining industry.
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