Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Administration dome & chair house |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
July 10, 1893 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. View of men and women on a street surrounded by neoclassical buildings at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Many of the women carry parasols. There is a tent in the middle distance at right, and a large domed building at the end of the street. The photographer's initials are inscribed in the lower left corner of the negative: "COPYRIGHT 1893 E.A.A." The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Stanley / 35 / 589 / Administration dome & / chair house / Fine clear day / W.L. 60 ft Inst fastest / 3.20 P.M / Monday July 10th 1893 / World's Fair / (12)." |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Earliest Date |
1893 |
Latest Date |
1893 |
Subjects |
Fairs |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Catalog Number |
50.015.5268 |
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. |