Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Cooking club girls around table] |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
May 4, 1886 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Interior view of a room with a cast iron stove and a fireplace at right. Four women, all wearing aprons, sit at a table; Alice Austen is second from left, Julia Marsh is second from right, and Trude Eccleston is at far right. (Keywords: Posed Group, Self Portrait, New York) |
Film Size |
6.5 x 8.5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
Alice Austen, Trude Eccleston, Julia Marsh, and another friend comprised the "Cooking Club," which met in a vacant Staten Island house that was loaned to them and cooked meals from their grandmothers' recipes. |
Earliest Date |
1886 |
Latest Date |
1886 |
Subjects |
Interiors Kitchens Group portraits Friendship Stoves |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Eccleston, Gertrude Lord, Julia (Marsh) |
Catalog Number |
50.015.6795 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, January 2013. |
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. |