Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Alice Austen in chair on porch] |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
ca. 1884-1888 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Alice Austen is seated in a rocking chair, reading a newspaper, on the porch of Clear Comfort, the Austen family home in Rosebank, Staten Island. She is wearing a plaid dress. The image is framed by vines trailing from the house and the porch trellises. (Keywords: Self Portrait, New York) |
Film Size |
6.5 x 8.5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Earliest Date |
1884 |
Latest Date |
1888 |
Subjects |
Houses Porches Rocking chairs |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Catalog Number |
50.015.6694 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by Barbara Newington, March 2018. |
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. |