Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Mrs Meyers, Nan Webb Julia B. & self Messrs Booth, Rawl, Lebrod, Micklesly & Shumann |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
February 22, 1892 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Interior view with a posed group of four women and five men; some are seated and some are standing. Several people hold teacups; the man at left holds out a serving plate to the woman seated next to him. In the foreground on the right a man lays face down on the floor. Alice Austen is seated on the right; Julia Bredt stands in the back center. The photographer's initials are inscribed in the lower left corner: "E.A.A." The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "No. 262 / Mrs Meyers, Nan Webb Julia B. & self / Messrs Booth, Rawl, Lebrod, Micklesly & Shumann / No gas light, flash / 10 P.M / W.L. / 12 ft / Monday Feb. 22nd / 1892 / Bethlehem." (Keywords: Posed Group, Self Portrait) |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
Alice Austen took this carefully posed group photo while visiting her friend Julia Bredt in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The Bredt family had previously lived near Alice Austen on Staten Island, but moved to Bethlehem in the 1880s. |
Earliest Date |
1892 |
Latest Date |
1892 |
Subjects |
Friendship Interiors Tableaux |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Bredt, Julia Frederika Booth, George Rodney |
Catalog Number |
50.015.5581 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, December 2016. |
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. |