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Chapter 3: 1890 & 1891 – Enigmatic Portraits

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 Chapter 3: 1890 & 1891 (Enigmatic Portraits: musings on the past and the things we leave behind) Image attributions: (HRT) Historic Richmond Town archive; (AAH) Alice Austen House Museum collection. 1887 Bessie Strong & Alice Austen Bessie Strong lived in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (HRT) (see notes) 1890 Alice and Julie Bredt Julie and Alice at Clear Comfort on Hallooween, 1890 (HRT) c. 1890 Julia Martin (right) & the Sibleys at Clear Comfort’s piazza Julia Martin (right) wrote the most letters in the collection – 87. (HRT) 1887 Alice Cornell Austen with Tristan Alice’s mother with their cat, Tristan, perhaps named for a character from the opera she saw as in this episode’s narrative. (HRT) 1890 letter from Alice’s mother Alice Cornell Austen tells of the opera Tristan & Isolde. (AAH) Metropolitan Opera season tickets Theatre & concert tickets that Alice saved and donated to the Staten Island Historical Society at her eviction from Clear Comfort. (HRT) 1888 Emily Denning Van Rensselaer & her daughter Emmie Emily, Emmie, and their dog Beauty – referenced in a letter from Jane Denning in this episode. (HRT) 1888 Denning’s Point The Denning sisters family home Presqu’ile stood on this peninsula on the Hudson River. (AAH) Denning’s Point today. July 2022. Photograph by Pamela Bannos. 1888 Presq’uile (home at Denning’s Point) Jane Louise Denning and sister Emily Denning Van Rensselaer’s house at Fishkill on Hudson. (AAH) 1888 Presqu’ile interior Alice made many photographs of this house and its grounds. (AAH) 1890 nighttime bloom of the cereus plant Captured with flash, this group gathered to witness the flower that blooms once a year, at night. (HRT) 1890 Simpkins family, Bennington VT Alice, Mrs. Snively, Mary Sanford & others at a village fair. (HRT) 1890: Mrs. Snively & Mary Sanford Mary Sanford and her partner Helen Stokes would become part of the early socialist movement in Greenwich Village (see notes for this chapter.) (HRT) 1890: Mrs. Snively, Julia Martin, and Alice Alice spent part of the summer with Julia and Mrs. Snively in Bennington, Vermont. (HRT) Negative sleeve for the 3 women in bed. The envelope does not divulge the intention of this portrait. (AAH) 1890 letter from Alice’s mother Alice Cornell Austen borrowed her daughter’s tennis stationery. (AAH) 1891 Trude Eccleston & Mr. Gregg at Clear Comfort Only spoken of as Mr. Gregg, he and Trude were engaged, but did not marry. (HRT) 1890 letter from Trude Eccleston Trude tells of meeting Mr. Gregg. (AAH) 1891 Trude and Alice Alice titled the photo during this summer of dramatized photographs. (HRT) 1891 Trude & Alice Masked This enigmatic portrait was shot at 11pm on an August night. (HRT) Envelope for masked portrait Alice noted the portrait as “Trude & I masked, short skirts.” (AAH) (see notes) 1891 Trude & Alice in bed An enigmatic portrait, taken the same night as “Trude & I masked.” (HRT) (see notes) 1891 The Darned Club Alice, Trude Eccleston, Julia Lord, and Sue Ripley. (HRT) (see notes) PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Opening music … [Trude Eccleston]My dear Alice;You are quite the meanest girl I know. Why haven’t you written to me when I know you have lots more time for it than I have. I am pining and homesick for some news of Staten Island. Do write & tell your famishing friend all you can.It seems useless to say I am having a gorgeous time as I don’t see how anyone could help it down here.If this is not the place to turn a girl’s head in, “so help me gracious.” Last night I went on a moonlight sail – Oh it was scrumptious.Now Alice, do write me one letter before I leave here.Love to all inquiring friends & yourself. Ever your loving friend, Trudie +++++++ Theme Music … [Narrator]I’m Pamela Bannos, in collaboration with the Alice Austen House Museum, and this is My Dear Alice, a podcast series that explores the life of photographer Alice Austen through her photographs and these letters that were discovered decades after her death.You’ll find images of some of these letters, along with photographs referred to here, at the website that accompanies this podcast. Chapter 3: It’s tricky to tell Alice Austen’s story through the letters she received because basically everyone is always asking Alice to join them or they are thanking her for sending them a photo or are relaying the time they’re having while they’re away from her. So we don’t exactly know what happens when they’re together unless Alice photographs the gathering – but which she does mostly seem to do. And yet, like any archive, we only know about what is there, not so much about what is missing. Just as there are gaps in these letters that were returned to Clear Comfort forty years after they were found in a closet there, from the thoroughness of Austen’s photography, it seems certain that there should be more pictures. And even so, Alice is mostly behind the ...
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