American Transit of Venus Camp, Whangaroa Bay, Chatham Islands, South Pacific

American Transit of Venus Camp, Whangaroa Bay, Chatham Islands, South Pacific

Bound volume

William H. Rau

Maker
American, 1855–1920

American Transit of Venus Camp, Whangaroa Bay, Chatham Islands, South Pacific

From the album Philadelphia Photographic Exchange Club Album


December 1874
Albumen silver print
Image: 4 15/16 × 7 11/16 in. (12.6 × 19.5 cm)
Mount: 9 15/16 × 12 in. (25.2 × 30.5 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1977.0558.0012
Inscriptions Inscribed in black ink under image: WILLIAM H. RAU. 1874
Printed and inscribed on applied label, BRC: PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCHANGE CLUB OF PHILAD'A. \ Dall. R.Rect.-8x10 Wet-Plate - 45 seconds. \ American Transit of Venus Camp Dec 1874. \ Whangaroa Bay, Chatham Is So Pacific \ W. H. RAU, No. 922 Girard Avenue, Philadelphia.
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