Photo Record
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Metadata
Title |
Indian Kettles & Trude |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
August 25, 1893 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. View in Lake George, New York. Trude Eccleston reclines and reads a book on a rock outcropping, with the lake and trees in the background. Her head is tilted forward so that her face is hidden by her hat, but her face is reflected in a small pool of water directly in front of her. The photographer's initials are inscribed in the lower right corner of the negative: "E.A.A." The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Stanley / 35 / 626 / Indian Kettles & Trude / Fine bright day, haze / W.L. / Inst / 50 ft / 3.30 p.m / Friday August 25th 1893 / Lake George." (Keywords: Adirondacks) |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
A June 4, 1899 article in the New York Times described the Indian Kettles of Lake George: "Many are the explanations and good the stories told regarding the origin of the famous Indian kettles or potholes that abound along the shores of Lake George, N.Y. However, there can be no doubt that nature is directly responsible for their creation. Scientists say that they were formed by the constant twirling around of small stones that were held captive in the eddies of the water that once covered these shores during the glacial period. These potholes, or Indian kettles, as they are more generally called, vary in size from a few inches to three or four feet in diameter, and some of them twelve or more feet in depth and formed in solid rock and exceedingly smooth internally. The position of the potholes, one to the other, is not such that would give much credence to the traditional yarns that have been handed down concerning their formation by the Indians in which to make their soups &c..." |
Earliest Date |
1893 |
Latest Date |
1893 |
Subjects |
Lakes & ponds Rocks Landscape photographs |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Eccleston, Gertrude |
Catalog Number |
50.015.6269 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, June 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. |