Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Tombstone Trude & Mr Hopper "yes" |
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 a tombstone with the inscription "YES" to their left. Trude holds an umbrella and looks down affectionately at Augustine, who is sitting on the lawn and holding her hand. Other tombstone monuments are visible in the distance. The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Cramer / Crown / No. 382 / Tombstone / Trude & Mr Hopper / 'yes' / Fine, bright day in sun / 9.35 am / W.L. 15 ft / Quick inst / Wed. August 3d 1892 / Watkins NY." |
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 |
50.015.6334 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, January 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. |