Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Julia B. & self, Messrs Rawl, Ordway, Blunt, Buel, Gibson & Maurice |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
February 20, 1892 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Interior view of a group of men and women. Alice Austen stands at right, holding a teacup, while six men and one woman are variously posed around a small table which is set for tea. In the foreground two men are on the floor, one reclining on pillows and the other holding his hand to his forehead. Julia Bredt is seated at the table pouring tea for a man standing next to her. (Keywords: Posed Group, Self Portrait) |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
Alice Austen took this carefully posed group photo while visiting with friends in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The woman seated at the table is Alice's friend Julia Bredt, and the others in the group are identified in the photographer's inscription as "Messrs Rawl, Ordway, Blunt, Buel, Gibson, and Maurice." The men identified as Buel, Blunt, and Ordway are most likely Emmot Davis Buel, William W. Blunt, and Godwin Ordway, all of whom graduated from nearby Lehigh University in the early 1890s. "Maurice" may be Archibald S. Maurice, also a student at Lehigh. |
Earliest Date |
1892 |
Latest Date |
1892 |
Subjects |
Friendship Tableaux Interiors |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Bredt, Julia Frederika Buel, Emmot Davis Ordway, Godwin Maurice, Archibald Stewart Blunt, William W. |
Catalog Number |
50.015.5454 |
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. |