May 15, 2008 - Sale 2146

Sale 2146 - Lot 285

Price Realized: $ 2,040
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
RAU, WILLIAM H. (1855-1920)
"Horseshoe Curve, Pennsylvania Railroad." Mural-size panoramic printing-out-paper print, 15 3/4x45 1/4 inches (40x115 cm.), with Rau's title and credit, in ink, on mount recto; in a period frame. 1901
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Another print is in the collection of the Southern Allegheny Museum of Art at Altoona.
The American Heritage History of Railroads in America, unpaginated.
The Pennsylvania Railroad commissioned Rau to take photographs and provided him with a specially-designed rail car. In 1901, the Railroad asked Rau to return to Horseshoe Curve, where the line crosses the highest point of the mountains. Rau built a customized panoramic camera, which could encompass an angle of 170 degrees.