[Page 61: Landscape with two men / Setting the Instruments for Observing the Transit of Venus, December 1874, Chatham Island, South Pacific]

[Page 61: Landscape with two men / Setting the Instruments for Observing the Transit of Venus, December 1874, Chatham Island, South Pacific]

Bound volume

William H. Rau

Maker
American, 1855–1920

[Page 61: Landscape with two men / Setting the Instruments for Observing the Transit of Venus, December 1874, Chatham Island, South Pacific]

From the album Philadelphia Photographic Exchange Club Album


ca. 1874
Albumen silver prints
Image (left): 4 5/16 × 3 1/16 in. (10.9 × 7.8 cm)
Image (right): 4 5/16 × 3 1/16 in. (10.9 × 7.8 cm)
Mount: 9 15/16 × 12 in. (25.2 × 30.5 cm)
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1977.0558.0061
Inscriptions Inscribed in black ink under image: WILLIAM H. RAU.
Printed and inscribed on applied label, BLC: PHOTOGRAPHIC EXCHANGE CLUB OF PHILAD'A. \ Setting the instruments for observing \ the transit Venus Dec. 1874 \ Chatham Island So Pacific \ W.H. RAU \ No. 922 Girard Ave, Philadelphia.
Inscribed in pencil, right of right image: [arrow] X

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