Not currently on view
In the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · as of August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
A distinguished commercial and documentary landscape photographer in Philadelphia, William H. Rau was commissioned in the 1890s by the Lehigh Valley Railroad to execute a series of scenic views along a new line. Realizing photography's advertising potential, the railroad company employed Rau to select picturesque subjects that might be seen while traveling by rail. Contact-printed from a mammoth plate negative, the landscape's shapes, textures, and tonal ranges are richly detailed.
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Samuel Bourne (British, 1834–1912) — The Upper Himmalayahs. ![[Bridge Over a Pond]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP115211.jpg)
Unknown — [Bridge Over a Pond]
James Knight (British) — Evening
Timothy H. O'Sullivan|Mathew B. Brady — Bull Run. Blackburn'![[Civil War View]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP248316.jpg)
Thomas C. Roche — [Civil War View]
Mathew B. Brady|Unknown — U.S. Monitor Onondaga, James River
Philip Henry Delamotte — Evening
Louise Deshong Woodbridge (American, 1848–1925) — Avondale![[Wisconsin Landscape]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP113871.jpg)
Henry Hamilton Bennett — [Wisconsin Landscape]![The Park at Sceaux [April 1925, 7a.m.]](https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.68/2002.68_web.jpg)
Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927) — The Park at Sceaux [April
Mathew B. Brady|Unknown — U.S. Monitor Onondaga, James River
Plunket — The Woodland Stream