Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Flash group |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
March 26, 1893 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Interior view in a parlor, likely the Alburger family home, in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Alice Austen stands at right, with Trude Eccleston seated in front of her. Thomas Linton Alburger stands behind his wife Mary, who is seated; she has her arm around her daughter Alice, who stands next to her. Thomas Jr. stands between Mary and Trude. They are posed in a parlor next to a fireplace; the mantelpiece is decorated with a mantel clock, a pair of candlesticks, and ceramic items, and a mirror hangs above. The photographer's initials are inscribed in the lower right corner of the negative: "E.A.A." The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Stanley / 527 / Flash group / Mary A. L. Alburger - / Alice A. Lin A. Jr / Trude E. EA Austen / Gas lit - 1 1/2 boxes powder / W.L. / 11 ft / 7.30 P.M / Sunday March 26th / 1893 / Germantown." (Keywords: Self Portrait) |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
On a visit to Germantown, Alice Austen and her friend Trude Eccleston posed for this photo with their friends Mary and Thomas Linton Alburger and the Alburgers two oldest children. Mary (Butler) Alburger was a former Staten Island resident who moved to Germantown following her 1887 marriage to Thomas Linton Alburger, a merchant. |
Earliest Date |
1893 |
Latest Date |
1893 |
Subjects |
Children Interiors Fireplaces Families Houses |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Eccleston, Gertrude Alburger, Alice B. Alburger, Mary S. (Butler) Alburger, Thomas Linton Alburger, Thomas Linton, Jr. |
Catalog Number |
50.015.5438 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, January 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. |