Photo Record
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Metadata
Title |
The Hills house & Mrs. Voorhees Union Street house |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
December 16, 1891 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Diagonal front view of two houses on Union Street in New Brunswick, New Jersey; both houses have mansard roofs. The street is unpaved. In the foreground is the fenced front yard of Peter T. Austen, uncle of photographer Alice Austen. The young child standing next to the gate appears to be Peter Austen's son Oswald, who was age 6 in 1891. The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "A&R / 40 / 239 / The Hills house & Mrs. Voorhees / Union Street house / Fair day / W.L. 60 ft 3 PM / Inst / Wed. Dec 16th 1891 / New Brunswick." |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
"Mrs. Voorhees" is Sarah R. (Neilson) Voorhees, wife of Willard P. Voorhees. Mr. Voorhees was a lawyer and later served as a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. |
Earliest Date |
1891 |
Latest Date |
1891 |
Subjects |
Houses Streets |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Austen, Oswald Townsend Austen, Peter Townsend Voorhees, Willard Penfield Voorhees, Sarah R. (Neilson) |
Catalog Number |
50.015.6160 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, March 2019. |
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. |