Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Trude Ec. & Mr Hopper "No" |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
August 3, 1892 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Trude Eccleston and Augustine Minshall Hopper sit on the base of a tombstone. The partial inscription "NO" is visible to the left, with the rest of the inscription hidden behind Trude and a hat placed on the tombstone. She holds a bouquet of flowers in her hand and faces away from Augustine, who is seated on the ground looking up at her. The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Cramer / Crown / No. 386 / Trude Ec. & Mr Hopper 'No' / Fine, bright day in sun / W.L. 10.15 am / 14 ft / Inst quick / Wed. August 3d 1892 / Watkins." |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
This is one of six photos that Alice Austen staged in front of a tombstone in Watkins, New York. She carefully positioned herself and her friends Trude Eccleston and Augustine M. Hopper to make a play on the name "NOYES," covering part of the name so that it showed as "NO" or "YES." The photos suggest romantic love and spurned affections. |
Earliest Date |
1892 |
Latest Date |
1892 |
Subjects |
Cemeteries Courtship Tableaux Tombs & sepulchral monuments |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Eccleston, Gertrude Hopper, Augustine Minshall |
Catalog Number |
50.015.6337 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, February 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. |