Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Trude & I masked, short skirts |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
August 6, 1891 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Posed vignette, with Alice Austen and her friend Trude Eccleston standing facing each other and pretending to smoke cigarettes. Both women are dressed in sleeveless undergarments, stockings, and shoes; both wear face masks. They stand between floral curtains, with a curtain backdrop. A rocking chair is partially visible at left, and a folded newspaper is on the floor near the chair. The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Stanley / 35 / 154 / Trude & I masked, short skirts / Gas on, flash / 11 ft / 11 P.M / W.L. / Thursday Aug 6th 1891." (Keywords: Self Portrait, New York, Clifton, Rosebank) |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
This image was published in the 1951 Life Magazine article "The Newly Discovered Picture World of Alice Austen," with this caption: "High jinks in the rectory amused Alice (left) and friend Trude Eccleston in St. John's Episcopal Church, where Trude's father was the rector. The masks, corset covers, petticoats and cigarets made a sinful display in 1891, but black stockings were innocent since flesh-colored ones did not appear until later." |
Earliest Date |
1891 |
Latest Date |
1891 |
Subjects |
Costumes Friendship Self-portraits Smoking Tableaux |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Eccleston, Gertrude Austen, E. Alice |
Catalog Number |
50.015.5462 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, June 2013. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |