Photo Record
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Metadata
Title |
[Austen children playing in the sand] |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, Peter Townsend |
Date |
1889 |
Collection |
Peter T. Austen Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Elizabeth Patty Austen (right) and Oswald Townsend Austen (left) are seated on a beach, probably at Bay Head, New Jersey. Elizabeth wears a hat with polka dots; Oswald wears a tall-crowned straw hat. There is a small pail in the sand next to Oswald. A house is in the background. Handwritten in red at right edge: "11.12"; handwritten in red on reverse: "14." |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Gift of Phyllis Borea |
Ownership and History |
Peter Townsend Austen (1852-1907) was the uncle of noted Staten Island photographer Alice Austen. This photo was most likely taken in the shore town of Bay Head, New Jersey, where Peter and his wife Nellie and their children William Munroe, Elizabeth Patty, and Oswald Townsend vacationed during several summers in the 1880s and 1890s. |
Earliest Date |
1889 |
Latest Date |
1889 |
Subjects |
Children Beaches |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Austen, Elizabeth Patty Austen, Oswald Townsend |
Catalog Number |
84.059.0078 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Great Kills Woman's Club, July 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. |