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Tuesday, September 8, 2009

On a couple of nondescript stereographs

Here's a couple of stereographs I bought over the weekend, due to their rough relationship to the Museum:

Rau - dutch courtship
The 'Dutch Courtship' was probably intended to be humorous.

Rau - crowd scene
This crowd scene is meaningless now without its caption.

So, why did I buy these?

Rau - dutch courtship credit

Rau - crowd scene credit
Both are by William H. Rau.

So?

He was William Bell's son-in-law. Bell was the Museum's best photographer of the 19th century who took photographed many of the Civil War soldiers at the Museum. He was the subject of a small exhibit at the American Art museum last year.

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