Photo Record
Images
![E. Alice Austen, [John H. Austen & Clear Comfort], 1887](https://s3.amazonaws.com/pastperfectonline/images/museum_1172/004/thumbs/20170603.jpg)
Metadata
Catalog Number |
2017.003.003 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Title |
[John H. Austen & Clear Comfort] |
Photographer |
Austen, Alice, 1866-1952 |
Collection |
Alice Austen House Museum Collection |
Date |
1887 |
Description |
Original black and white print mounted on a page in photograph album 2017.06.00; the album contains photographs taken almost entirely by Alice Austen mostly of her family's Staten Island home but there are other locations around the island and in New York City included as well as some farther locations. A diagonal view of the front of Clear Comfort, the Austen family home in Staten Island September 9, 1887. Alice's grandfather John Haggerty Austen, sits in a rocking chair in front of the porch, punch the family's pug sits next to his chair. There's a table on the porch by the front door. A telescope can be seen through one of the porches archways. At the north end there is a bench. |
Print size |
6 x 8 in. |
Medium |
Photographic Paper |
Search Terms |
Clear Comfort |
Subjects |
Houses trees lawns dogs leisure |
People |
Austen, John Haggerty |