Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Sunrise from my window at Uncle Pete's |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
June 19, 1890 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. View of houses and trees in New Brunswick, New Jersey, as seen from the home of Peter T. Austen. The photographer's initials are inscribed in the lower left cornerof the negative: "E.A.A." The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "New Brunswick / Allen & Rowell / 40 / No. 8 / Sunrise from my window / at Uncle Pete's / 60 ft / 4.40 am / 4 secs / D. / Thursday June 19th / 1890." |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
Photographer Alice Austen's uncle Peter T. Austen was a professor of chemistry at Rutgers College. |
Earliest Date |
1890 |
Latest Date |
1890 |
Subjects |
Sunrises & sunsets Landscape photographs |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Austen, Peter Townsend |
Catalog Number |
50.015.6161 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, March 2019. |
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. |