Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
A Battery Recruits limbered up |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
September 4, 1896 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. View of parade grounds and buildings at Fort Frontenac in Kingston, Canada. Two rows of soldiers in uniform stand behind a large wheeled cart carrying a cannon and a limber box. Another man in uniform stands next to the cart. The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription, which also refers to negative 50.015.6057: "Cramer / C / 982 & 983 / A Battery / Recruits limbered up / 60 ft 2.55 P.M / W.L. / 983 Gate & sentry 3.15 P.M / 60 ft Inst fastest / Kingston Barracks." |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Earliest Date |
1896 |
Latest Date |
1896 |
Subjects |
Military facilities Cannon balls Soldiers |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Catalog Number |
50.015.6055 |
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. |