Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Clifton and Fort Wadsworth from Grymes Hill] |
Object Name |
Stereoview |
Photographer |
Hoyer, H. |
Date |
ca. 1859 |
Collection |
Staten Island Geographic Collection |
Description |
Half of an original B&W stereoview on a yellow cardboard mount. Distant view of Clifton and Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, seen from an elevated vantage point; trees and shrubbery are in the foreground. Printed inscription along the left edge of the mount: "American Views." Handwritten inscription in pencil on the reverse: "Clifton & Fort Wadsworth / from Grimes [sic] Hill, S.I. / H. Hoyer, 1859". Stamped inscription on reverse: "WM. T. DAVIS / 146 STUYVESANT PLACE / STATEN IS., N.Y." (Keywords: New York) |
Print size |
3.125 x 2.625 |
Acquisition |
Gift of William T. Davis |
Ownership and History |
Little is known about H. Hoyer, the earliest documented commercial photographer on Staten Island. His business was based in a studio in the former Planters Hotel in Stapleton. He advertised his photography in an 1859 Staten Island newspaper, stating that in addition to his "large collection of stereoscopic pictures of the most prominent Views of Staten Island," he was "prepared to take stereoscopic views of private residences, gardens, groups, etc., at short notice, and on reasonable terms." This stereoview was donated to the Staten Island Historical Society in 1936 by William T. Davis, who served as the Society's first president from 1922 to 1936. Before donating his collection of H. Hoyer stereoviews, he cut them in half so that he could donate one part to the Historical Society and the other part to the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences (now Staten Island Museum). |
Earliest Date |
1858 |
Latest Date |
1860 |
Subjects |
Landscape photographs Stereographs |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Catalog Number |
36.016.0006 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, October 2015. |
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. |