Contributors: Kenneth Finkel is Executive Director of Arts and Culture Service at WHYY, Inc., Philadelphia's public television and radio station. He was formerly Curator of Prints and Photographs of the Library Company of Philadelphia. The late James J. D. Lynch, Jr. was an officer of the Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society. Mary Panzer, an independent scholar, was Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. She is author of Mathew Brady and the Image of History. John R. Stilgoe is Orchard Professor in the History of Landscape, Harvard University. Among his many books are Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places and Metropolitan Corridor: Railroads and the American Scene. John C. Van Horne is Librarian of the Library Company of Philadelphia. He has edited numerous volumes, including Latrobe's View of America, 1795-1820 and The Abolitionist Sisterhood: Women's Political Culture in Antebellum America. Eileen E. Drelick is Research Administrator with Blank Rome Comisky and McCauley LLP. She worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and its successors from 1966 to 1991.
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Introduction -John C. Van Horne William H. Rau, Philadelphia, Photography, and the Railroad -Kenneth Finkel The Invisible Photographs of William H. Rau -Mary Panzer An Opening Between Trains -John R. Stilgoe GALLERY OF IMAGES The Main Line from New York to Philadelphia The Main Line from Philadelphia to Harrisburg The Main Line from Harrisburg to Pittsburgh The Schuylkill Division, the Northern Central Railway, and the Belvidere-Delaware Division Inventory of the William H. Rau Collection Bibliography of William H. Rau's Writings -William S. Johnson Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index
"In the eighteen-nineties, William H. Rau, a leading Philadelphia photographer, turned an advertising assignment for the Pennsylvania Railroad into a major artistic project. Using a specially adapted railway car and two colossal cameras, he photographed everything from the mahogany interiors of luxury cars to freight yards, tunnels, and switch towers. His grandest effects are achieved in meticulously composed studies of the landscape traversed by the railroad... In Rau's lens even the most ordinary railway junction becomes a Euclidean marvel of intertwining lines."--New Yorker