Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Mr. Montgomery Uncle brother |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
August 25, 1895 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Beach scene, with a close-up view of three men in bathing suits posed sitting and reclining on the sand; the man in the center is smoking a pipe. The man at right is the photographer's uncle, Peter Townsend Austen. Several children are visible in the background. The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Cramer / 50 crown / 843 / Mr Montgomery Uncle / brother / Fine day sun / W.L. Inst medium / 12 ft / 5.35 P.M / Sunday August 25th / 1895 / Bay Head." |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
Peter Austen and his family visited the shore town of Bay Head, New Jersey, during several summers in the 1880s and 1890s. The man identified in the inscription as "Mr. Montgomery" is most likely John Howard Montgomery of Flushing, New York. "Brother" might refer to one of Mr. Montgomery's four brothers. |
Earliest Date |
1895 |
Latest Date |
1895 |
Subjects |
Beaches Bathing suits |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Austen, Peter Townsend Montgomery, John Howard |
Catalog Number |
50.015.5475 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, February 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. |