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Title: Mauch Chunk Switchback Home Stretch
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (associated name)
Description: Lantern slide no. 15536 showing a gravity railroad established in 1827 to move passengers and coal from the mines at Summit Hill to a canal at Mauch Chunk. By 1840, stationary steam engines wre being used to haul cars up two inclined planes; one at Mount Pisgah, directly above Mauch Chunk, and another at Mount Jefferson near Summit Hill.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_037
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Across New Jersey
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (en)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 853.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_029
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Musconetcong Curve near Bloomsbury
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 857.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_030
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Raritan River at Neshanic
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (en)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 840.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_028
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Panorama of Lehigh River at Mauch Chunk
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 24367.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_046a
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Owasco Lake Front, Casowasco
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Lantern slide no. 660.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_027
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Rau Art Studios, Inc. Lantern Slide Housing
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide housing from Rau Art Studios.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_046b
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Ox Bow Curve
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 565.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_017
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Burning Mines, Summit Hill
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (associated name)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 237 showing the site of the Summit Hill underground coal mine fire, which started burning on started burning February 15, 1859.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_003
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: South Bethlehem, Lehigh University
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 531.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_006
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Lehigh River and Mountains near Glen Onoko
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 980.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_034
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Mauch Chunk, from the Mountain Road
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 548.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_011
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Bear Creek Curve
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 564.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_016
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Top of Jefferson Plane Switch-Back
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (associated name)
Description: Lantern slide no. 15536 showing a gravity railroad established in 1827 to move passengers and coal from the mines at Summit Hill to a canal at Mauch Chunk. By 1840, stationary steam engines wre being used to haul cars up two inclined planes; one at Mount Pisgah, directly above Mauch Chunk, and another at Mount Jefferson near Summit Hill.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_039
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Mauch Chunk, from the Station
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 547.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_010
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Stoney Creek Curve, West
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 567. William H. Rau's Lehigh Valley Railroad photographer's train at Stoney Creek Curve, north of Mauch Chunk.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_018
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Mount Jefferson Plane
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (associated name)
Description: Lantern slide no. 236 showing a gravity railroad established in 1827 to move passengers and coal from the mines at Summit Hill to a canal at Mauch Chunk. By 1840, stationary steam engines wre being used to haul cars up two inclined planes; one at Mount Pisgah, directly above Mauch Chunk, and another at Mount Jefferson near Summit Hill.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_002
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Mount Pisgah Plane Switchback Railroad
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Lantern slide no. 557 showing a gravity railroad established in 1827 to move passengers and coal from the mines at Summit Hill to a canal at Mauch Chunk. By 1840, stationary steam engines wre being used to haul cars up two inclined planes; one at Mount Pisgah, directly above Mauch Chunk, and another at Mount Jefferson near Summit Hill.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_012
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Lehigh Valley from Picadilly Hill
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Lantern slide no. 511.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_004
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Mauch Chunk Looking down the Lehigh
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (associated name)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 8038.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_035
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Penn Haven Junction
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 563, showing the railroad junction for the Lehigh Valley Main and Hazleton lines, as well as the Central Railroad of New Jersey.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_015
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

Title: Curve West of Wyalusing
Date(s): 1895
Contributor(s): Rau, William Herman, 1855-1920 (photographer), Lehigh Valley Railroad Company (contractor)
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide no. 610.
Collection ID: William H. Rau lantern slides (Accession 1971.360)
Hagley ID: AVD_1971360_021
Collection: William H. Rau lantern slides

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