Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Tombstone Trude & Mr Hopper approaching |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
August 3, 1892 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Augustine Minshall Hopper and Trude Eccleston stand side by side next to a tombstone which has the inscription "NOYES." Trude is smiling as she looks down at a small bouquet of flowers in her hands. Mr. Hopper holds a parasol above their heads. The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Cramer / crown / No. 383 / Tombstone / Trude & Mr Hopper / approaching / Fine, bright day, in sun / W.L. / 9.45 am / 25 ft / Inst quick / Wed. Aug 3d / 1892 / Watkins NY." |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
This is one of six photos that Alice Austen staged in front of a tombstone in Watkins, New York. She carefully positioned herself and her friends Trude Eccleston and Mr. Hopper to make a play on the name "NOYES," covering part of the name so that it showed as "NO" or "YES." The photos suggest romantic love and spurned affections. |
Earliest Date |
1892 |
Latest Date |
1892 |
Subjects |
Cemeteries Courtship Tableaux Tombs & sepulchral monuments |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Eccleston, Gertrude Hopper, Augustine Minshall |
Catalog Number |
50.015.5464 |
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. |