1867 Farrell View of the 'Meeting of the Waters', Vale of Avoca, Ireland

Peter D. Farrell (fl. 1860 - 1870) was an Irish-American lithographer, publisher, and subscription book publisher active in New York and Michigan in the mid-19th century. Farrell published under the imprint of 'P.D. Farrell Company'. In the late 19th century Farrell relocated to Copemish, Michigan and later, in 1900, to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Farrell published highly illustrated works focusing Ireland. More by this mapmaker...

Jacob Rau (1821 - ????) was a New York based engraver and lithographer who advertised himself as a 'practical lithographer.' He was born in Holstein, Germany and emigrated to New York between 1848 an 1850, likely fleeting repercussions from involvement in the Revolutions of 1848, making him a 48er. He maintained offices at 333 Broadway and later at 381 Pearl Street, where he published works in association with others from the German-American immigrant community, most prominent among them Gustav Kraetzer (1822 - 1901). Rau published maps, views, advertising, and books. He has some association with the Nicaraguan-German civil engineer Maximilian von Sonnenstern (1819 - 1895), also a 48er from Württemberg, for whom he published several seminal maps. From 1864 he was associated with Edward Valois, also a lithographer, with whom he published under the imprint of 'Valois and Rau.' His production seems to have stopped in the late 1860s. Learn More...