Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Bed raised |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
ca. 1900-1910 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Interior view of a dormitory at the U.S. Quarantine Station on Hoffman Island, off Staten Island, New York. The room contains rows of metal bunk beds. One of the beds is folded up against the wall. (Keywords: New York City) |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
The Hoffman Island dormitories were described in an article in the New York Times on November 27, 1910: "...While the patients are confined in the sick wards, those allowed to wait for them on the island lead a confined but certainly healthy and advantageous existence. This costs them not a cent. They sleep in big, airy rooms. No mattresses are provided in order to guard the better against infection; the enforced sojourners have blankets which are spread on spring beds of light construction, arranged like the berths wherein they slept during their ocean trip..." |
Earliest Date |
1900 |
Latest Date |
1910 |
Subjects |
Quarantines Interiors Beds Dormitories |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Catalog Number |
50.015.5683 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, April 2017. |
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. |