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My Dear Alice

My Dear Alice

De : Pamela Bannos
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 19th century New York photographer Alice Austen’s life story through letters returned to her home decades after her death. The letters are a portal to photographic, women’s, and LGBTQ history.© 2022 Pamela Bannos Art Sciences sociales
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    • Chapter 1: Introductions

      Chapter 1: Introductions
      Sep 28 2022
      Chapter 1: Introductions (the story / the house / the characters / the letters) Image attributions: (HRT) Historic Richmond Town archive; (AAH) Alice Austen House Museum collection. Letter album at Historic Richmond Town Archive Album of 1830s through 1870s letters written by Sarah Ann & John Haggerty Austen Sarah Ann Austen Townsend in 1832 John Haggerty Austen’s 17-yr-old sister. Portrait, courtesy of the Frick Art Reference Library. (AI colorized) Alice’s grandmother, Elizabeth Alice Townsend Austen Alice Austen’s maternal grandmother, painted circa 1840 (HRT) David Austen Alice Austen’s paternal great-grandfather, painted in 1846 (HRT) Alice Cornell Townsend Alice Austen’s maternal great-grandmother, circa 1835. (HRT) Alice’s Book circa 1877 Book given to a friend by Alice Austen as she was leaving her home. Returned to Clear Comfort decades later. (AAH) Peter Townsend Alice Austen’s maternal great-grandfather, painted circa 1840 (HRT) 1870 painting of Clear Comfort circa 1870 painting by William Hart (HRT) 3 year old Alice Austen in 1869 Studio portrait re-photographed by Alice Austen in the 1890s (HRT) 1883 letter from Auntie Min Minnie Austen Hicks Miller letter from Hong Kong – earliest letter in the collection. (AAH) 1884 envelope from Brooklyn Envelope for Bessie Hazard’s letter – a fragment of it showing a child’s scribbling from decades later. (AAH) 1884 letter fragment with more recent scribbles Evidence of the Mandia family’s children’s interactions with the letters they kept for 40 years. (AAH) Clear Comfort in 1885 19-year-old Alice Austen on the house’s piazza (AAH) Julia & Alice at 19 in 1885 Julia Martin and Alice Austen with Chico & Punch (AAH) Auntie Min, Uncle Peter & Alice in 1885 19-year-old Alice with her aunt and uncle (AAH) 1885: Alice and Her Friends Alice (far left) and Trude Eccleston (2nd from left) and friends in their bathing suits at Clear Comfort. (HRT) 1887: View from Clear Comfort’s front lawn View of the Narrows from Clear Comfort’s front lawn. (AAH) 2021 View from Clear Comfort’s front lawn A cruise ship passes by Clear Comfort in 2018. Photograph by Pamela Bannos. Chico & Punch in 1887 Chico the chihuahua and Punch the pug on Clear Comfort’s piazza (AAH) 1887 Scrapbook page An article about Clear Comfort in one of Alice Austen’s scrapbooks (AAH) Aunt Min, Uncle Oswald & Alice Austen 18-year-old Alice with Aunt Min & her husband Uncle Oswald (AAH) Elizabeth Alice Townsend Austen Alice Austen’s grandmother in 1885 (AAH) Alice Austen in 1887 Dunn studio portrait taken in New Brunswick, New Jersey. (AAH) Minnie Austen Hicks Miller Alice Austen’s Auntie Minn, circa 1885 (AAH) 1888 Tennis Group Alice in tie, middle in bottom row. Trude Eccleston, 2nd from left top row. (HRT) Contemporary panoramic view of Clear Comfort Photograph by Pamela Bannos. PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Opening music… [Bessie Strong]1885, July 19, New Brunswick:My dear Alice – Perhaps when you discover that this letter was written on Sunday, you will hesitate about reading it. New Brunswickers are never troubled with such compunctions, but with Staten Island people it may be different. You began your letter with a slurring remark about our “metropolis” or rather our weather, which was unjust, and words cannot describe the pain it caused me. However, I will try to forget and forgive. Have you heard the song “Forget, Forgive” by the same composer as “Some Day”? [Narrator]This is one letter among hundreds that were sent to 19th century photographer Alice Austen. 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. Here, we will piece together Austen’s story through her extensive photographic legacy, while filling in new details through these rediscovered letters that were sent to her historic home, called Clear Comfort. +++++++ [Narrator]This is a story of home, history, celebration, and reclamation. Clear Comfort, now known as the Alice Austen House Museum, sits on the bank of the Narrows with a sweeping view of the Manhattan skyline. Passing through this narrow channel that separates Staten Island from Brooklyn, and known as the gateway to New York City and America, generations of immigrants would see Alice Austen’s house before they spotted the Statue of Liberty on their way to Ellis Island. Dating back to pre-Revolutionary days, this modest cottage remains a sentry to our changing world. Groundbreaking nineteenth-century Staten Island photographer Elizabeth Alice Austen – known formally as E. Alice Austen, and familiarly as simply Alice – lived at Clear Comfort from around the time of her birth in 1866 until she was evicted in 1945. It was a chaotic exit ...
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      39 min
    • Chapter 2: 1880s Recreation

      Chapter 2: 1880s Recreation
      Oct 5 2022
      Chapter 2: 1880s Recreation (tennis-mania & summer resorts) Image attributions: (HRT) Historic Richmond Town archive; (AAH) Alice Austen House Museum collection. 22-year-old Alice Austen in 1888 1888 portrait by Austen’s Uncle Oswald Muller. (HRT) Bradish Carroll letter The opening letter from this episode. Bradish Carroll danced the Santiago Waltz with Alice – it is the music from which this podcast theme music was derived. (AAH) 1888 Tennis Group Carrie Ward (top row, left); Nellie Janssen (top row, right); and Bradish Carroll (seated with cane.) (HRT) 1888 Dance Card Dance card showing Alice danced the Santiago Waltz with Bradish Carroll. (AAH) Emily Babbitt & Lieutenant Edwin Babbitt Alice’s tennis doubles partner with his wife, who wrote Alice congratulating her on winning her tennis match. (AAH) 1888 letter from Emily Babbitt Fragment from letter from Emily Babbitt, as part of this chapter’s narrative. (AAH) 1889 Costume Party at a Catskills summer resort Alice & Trude Eccleston dressed as nuns, advertising Pear’s Soap. Charlie Barton seated in military costume. (HRT) 1889 Catskill costume party detail Detail showing Alice & Trude Eccleston dressed as nuns, with Charlie Barton on the floor. (HRT) 1889 in Costume (HRT) 1888 Staten Island’s best women tennis players Published in Outing Magazine, Alice Austen is standing at far right in the top row. (AAH) 1885 Katie with Punch & Chico Alice Cornell Austen often wrote of Katie, the Austens’ live-in helper who, among other duties, tended to the dogs. (HRT) Alice Cornell Austen (Alice’s mother) in 1887 Alice Cornell Austen with Tristan, the cat. (HRT) 1887 scrapbook page Alice’s scrapbook showing 1887 & 1888 tennis news, obituaries, and other items. (AAH) 1887 scrapbook page detail Detail showing Alice’s tennis results, her grandmother’s obituary, and her aunt Mary Austen’s obituary. (AAH) Tennis Club receipts Facing pages showing membership receipts for the Staten Island Ladies Club & the SI neighborhood club, Ladies Tennis Club of Clifton. (HRT) 1888 Tennis Group The photo Nellie Janssen asked for – she is seated at top right. Bradish Carroll is at middle left with striped beanie. (HRT) 1888 scrapbook item Badge to attend the 1888 tennis matches. (AAH) Lake Mahopac, 1888 Lake Mahopac, where Alice joined Trude Eccleston in the summer of 1888. (HRT) Lake Mahopac today Lake Mahopac in 2022. Photograph by Pamela Bannos. 1888 letter from Effie Emmons Fragment from letter from Cushings Island, Maine, as part of this chapter’s narrative. (AAH) 1889 the Ward family Violet Ward (standing, looking right), Carrie Ward (seated far right) and their father, a Civil War general, standing with bugle. (HRT) 1889 Tennis Group Group photo showing several of Alice’s correspondents. (HRT) 1889 Bessie Strong Detail from group showing Bessie Strong. (HRT) 1889 Charlie Barton Detail from group showing Charlie Barton. (HRT) 1889 Effie Emmons Detail from group showing Effie Emmons. (HRT) 1889 Lou Alexander Detail from group showing Lou Alexander. (HRT) 1889 Trude Eccleston Detail from the group showing Trude Eccleston. (HRT) 1888 scrapbook item Clipped cartoon in Austen’s 1888 scrapbook. (AAH) 1888 Alice with Trude’s family at Lake Mahopac Alice at far right; Trude Eccleston seated with Charlie Barton at her feet. (HRT) 1889 Catskills Group at creek in Catskills. Trude Eccleston at far left. From photo album with title, “The Creek.” (HRT) PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Opening: [Bradish J Carroll]My Dear Miss Austen, I have to thank you very much indeed for giving me one of those prints of the tennis match, as I particularly wanted it. I found it at home when I got down from the City today. Had I known it was on the way this morning when I met you on the Boat, I most certainly would have thanked you in person. I am going to frame all of them and hang them in my room so as to keep those pleasant days fresh in my mind.Hoping to have the good fortune to meet you soon at some of the dances. Believe me, Most sincerely yours,Bradish J Carroll +++++++ [Narrator]Mr. Carroll’s mention of meeting Alice Austen at some of the dances ties in with a notable item in Austen’s archive. One of her scrapbook’s dance cards (detailing an evening’s music by song, dance style, and with the penciled name of each dance partner) shows Austen danced the Santiago Waltz with Bradish Carroll in early 1889. It is the melody from which this podcast theme music was derived. 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. Here, we will piece together Austen’s story through her extensive photographic legacy, while filling in new details through these ...
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      34 min
    • Chapter 3: 1890 & 1891 – Enigmatic Portraits

      Chapter 3: 1890 & 1891 – Enigmatic Portraits
      Oct 13 2022
      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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      30 min
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