Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Julia Bredt Joy & Elise C. & self |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
February 21, 1892 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Posed vignette in a parlor, with a group of ten men and four women arranged around a sofa. Alice Austen stands second from the right, and her friend Julia Bredt is seated next to her. Several of the men make exaggerated humorous expressions. The photographer's initials are inscribed in the lower left corner: "E.A.A." The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "A&R / 40 / No. 252 / Julia Bredt Joy & Elise C. & self / Messrs Booth, Drayton, Bruel, Ordway, / Wade, [Focht?], Robinson, Rogers, Hopkin / & Rogers. / No light in room, flash / 10 P.M / W.L. / 14 ft / Sunday Feb 21st / 1892 / Bethlehem." (Keywords: Posed Group, Self Portrait) |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
The setting for this photo is most likely the home of Mrs. Maria Bredt and her children, including Alice Austen's friend Julia Bredt. The Bredt family lived in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the 1880s and early 1890s. Some of the men in the group have been identified through research as Percival Drayton, Emmot Davis Buel, Godwin Ordway, and William Ogden Wade, all of whom were students at nearby Lehigh University at that time, and George Rodney Booth, who graduated Lehigh in 1886 and lived in Bethlehem. |
Earliest Date |
1892 |
Latest Date |
1892 |
Subjects |
Friendship Tableaux Group portraits Interiors Houses |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Bredt, Julia Frederika Drayton, Percival Booth, George Rodney Ordway, Godwin Buel, Emmot Davis Chapman, Joy Madeline Wade, William Ogden |
Catalog Number |
50.015.5582 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, March 2020. |
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. |