Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Mr Hopper & camera on South Porch |
Object Name |
Negative, Glass-plate |
Photographer |
Austen, E. Alice |
Date |
July 23, 1892 |
Collection |
Alice Austen Photograph Collection |
Description |
Original glass plate negative. Augustine Minshall Hopper stands on a balcony at the Glen Springs Sanitarium in Watkins, New York. He wears a dark-color jacket and striped light-color pants. He stands next to a camera on a tripod; the camera is covered with a dark cloth. Seneca Lake and mountains are in the background. The original negative sleeve has the photographer's handwritten inscription: "Stanley / 35 / 357 / Mr Hopper & camera / on South Porch / Fine day / W.L. 12 ft / 11.50 am / Sat July 23d 1892 / Watkins N.Y." |
Film Size |
4 x 5 |
Acquisition |
Museum Purchase |
Ownership and History |
Augustine Minshall Hopper, who was 18 years old when this photo was taken, was vacationing with his family at the Glen Springs Sanitarium. He wrote a letter to Alice Austen on August 11, 1892, after Alice had departed the Sanitarium but Augustine was still there. He noted his disappointment with photographs he had taken on his visit: "I got the message you sent me in Miss Eccleston's letter and have only waited to answer it until I could have the prints...this morning I got them and am sorry to say with one exception they are poor, very foggy & gray, but still very funny..." |
Earliest Date |
1892 |
Latest Date |
1892 |
Subjects |
Photography Cameras |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Hopper, Augustine Minshall |
Catalog Number |
50.015.6309 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, May 2020. |
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. |