Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Interior with beds, Quarantine] |
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. (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 |
50.015.5682 |
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. |