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    William Herman Rau (January 19, 1855 – November 19, 1920) was an American photographer who was active primarily in the latter half of the 19th and early...
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    Bazaar An Ottoman Dervish in Istanbul, 1878 Dervishes photographed by William H. Rau near Damascus, c. 1903 A Palestinian Dervish in 1913 Muhammad Ahmad...
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    Ginza in the early 1900s, photographed by William H. Rau...
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    the exposition, he sold his Chestnut Street studio to his son-in-law, William H. Rau. In 1882, Bell was hired by the U.S. Navy as a photographer for its...
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    Evacuees on Rue du Pavé, Fort-de-France after 1902 eruption, photographed by William H. Rau...
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    Receptus", (London, 1862), p. 272. Burgon, John William (1883). The Revision Revised. London: John Murray. H. Alford, Life by my Widow, pp. 310, 315. Bibliorum...
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    Shumaker and Auditor General William Preston Snyder were also convicted. Among the convicted, John H. Sanderson and William L. Mathues died before going...
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    accompanied Bethlehem Iron directors Robert H. Sayre, Elisha Packer Wilbur, president of Lehigh Valley Railroad, William Thurston, and Joseph Wharton, founder...
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    mission was aided by the active support of President of the United States William McKinley, which was won by organizers in a February 1899 White House visit...
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    to the industry that a strike would hurt the reelection of Republican William McKinley, Hanna convinced the owners to concede a wage increase and grievance...
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