Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
[Hall, Anson Phelps Stokes house "Bay Villa"] |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Photographer |
Almstaedt, Isaac |
Date |
ca. 1880 |
Collection |
Staten Island Geographic Collection |
Description |
Original B&W print on off-white cardboard mount. Interior view of the entrance hall in the Anson Phelps Stokes house "Bay Villa" in New Brighton, Staten Island. The room is furnished with a table and two chairs. The view looks through a wide opening into an adjoining room which has a piano and a potted plant on a pedestal; draperies hang on either side of the opening. A light fixture hangs from the ceiling. Printed inscription on the front of the mount along the bottom edge of the photograph: "ALMSTAEDT, PHOTO. TOMPKINSVILLE, S.I." Printed inscription on the reverse of the mount: "ALMSTAEDT / PORTRAIT & LANDSCAPE / PHOTOGRAPHER / TOMPKINSVILLE, S.I. / PUBLISHER OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF / Staten Island Scenery." (Keywords: New York) |
Print size |
5.750 x 4 |
Ownership and History |
Mr. and Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes and their children lived part of the year in this house from 1868 to 1886. |
Earliest Date |
1880 |
Latest Date |
1886 |
Subjects |
Houses Interiors Halls |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Stokes, Anson Phelps |
Catalog Number |
PH01.0464 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, December 2014. |
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. |