Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
"Fred" at work |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
April 29, 1901 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Interior view of a laboratory at the U.S. Quarantine Station in Rosebank, Staten Island. A man (identified in the inscription on the negative sleeve as Fred) is seated at a table that contains glass jars, a graduated cylinder, a clamp holding a funnel, and a gas jet; he is holding tools and working with a glass vial. The room is filled with equipment, including a sink, a rack with pegs that hold glass vials, and shelves containing bottles, various types of glassware, and three boxes of "PEARLINE" (a brand of washing soap). Two enameled metal pots hang on the wall, and there is a bellows on the floor near his feet. The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Cramer / crown / Laboratory upstairs / autoclave / media room / pressure sterilizer / 10 ft / counted 10 / 11 am / No / other end / 'Fred' at work / W.L. / 10 ft counted 18 / 11.10 am Mon April 29th / 1901 / Bright day / Quarantine." (Keywords: Early Twentieth Century, New York City) |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Earliest Date |
1901 |
Latest Date |
1901 |
Subjects |
Quarantines |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Catalog Number |
50.015.5717 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, September 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. |