Photo Record
Images
![Oswald Muller, [Mary Austen Müller, Punch, Alice Austen, & Oswald Müller]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_1172/001/thumbs/201738003.jpg)
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2017.38.003 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Title |
[Mary Austen Müller, Punch, Alice Austen, and Oswald Müller] |
Photographer |
Muller, Oswald |
Collection |
Alice Austen House Museum Collection |
Date |
1884 |
Description |
Original black and white print. A group portrait of Minn (Mary Austen Müller), Alice, Capt. Oswald Müller, and Punch the pug in the garden of Clear Comfort the family's Staten Island, New York Home. Minn holds a Japanese parasol over one shoulder. She is wearing a dark dress with intricate white trim and a neck pin shaped like a ship's wheel. Alice who is seated between her aunt and uncle wears a dark dress with lighter polka dots or flowers for the print and a hat. She is the only one not looking at the camera instead she looks up at her uncle Oswald. Oswald at the right wears a dark suit and hat. In his right hant he holds the shutter release for the camera, the movement his hand makes to take the photo as well as the cable coming down from his hand are both visible. |
Print size |
3.25 x 4.5 in. |
Medium |
Photographic Paper |
Subjects |
Dogs Family Portrait photographs |
People |
Austen, Alice Muller, Mary Austen Muller, Oswald |