Photo Record
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Metadata
Title |
Mounted Messenger Boy, Thirtieth Street |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
June 2, 1896 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. A messenger in uniform stands with a bicycle on a street in Manhattan. Sign mounted on the bicycle: "AMERICAN DIST. / MESSENGERS / WESTERN UNION / TEL CO." Signs on the surrounding buildings include Waverly Bicycles, American District Messenger, and Smith's Restaurant and Lunch Room. Inscription in the lower left corner of the negative: "COPYRIGHT 1896 / E.A. AUSTEN." The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Nos / 917 & 918 / Cramer / Crown / 917 Messenger boy by wheel / 15 ft / 30th St near / Bway / 918 [ditto marks] on wheel, 25 ft / 4.45 PM / Inst quick / Fine sunny day / Tuesday June 2nd 1896 / N.Y / Set." (Keywords: New York City) |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
This is one of 12 photographs that Alice Austen published in 1896 in a portfolio titled "Street Types of New York." It is identified in the portfolio as "Mounted Messenger Boy, Thirtieth Street." |
Earliest Date |
1896 |
Latest Date |
1896 |
Subjects |
Messengers Bicycles & tricycles Employees |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Catalog Number |
50.015.5935 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Great Kills Woman's Club, August 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. |