Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Shoe blacks & stand 4th Ave |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
March 5, 1894 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Two bootblacks sit at a shoeshine stand on 4th Avenue in Manhattan. There is a sign on the stand: "FIRST CLASS SHINE / 5 c / OIL SHINE 10 c / PAT. LEATHER / [ ] ELLOW SHOES." The building behind them has an awning with inscription "EYE GLASSES." The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Stanley / 35 / 692 / Shoe blacks & stand 4th Ave / Cloudy / D. 2.35 PM / 40 ft Inst / Monday March 5th / 1894 / N.Y. / Set." (Keywords: New York City) |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Earliest Date |
1894 |
Latest Date |
1894 |
Subjects |
Shoe shiners |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Catalog Number |
50.015.5920 |
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. |