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Version: 4 (current) | Updated: 12/9/2025, 9:54:05 PM | Created: 12/9/2025, 7:19:57 PM
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Each image shows the original handwritten or printed text, dates, times, and locations, all in English. The OCR data confirms the content and provides searchable text for the collection.
@file_pinax:file {title: "Alice Austen Social Invitations Collection, 1887", type: "Collection", created: @date_1887, language: "en", description: "Collection of social invitations and correspondence addressed to Alice Austen in 1887, including formal event invitations and personal notes.", institution: @alice_austen_house, place: @clifton, subjects: [@social_invitations, @victorian_social_life, @parties, @events, @correspondence]}
@alice_austen_social_invitations_collection:collection {title: "Alice Austen Social Invitations Collection, 1887", created: @date_1887, institution: @alice_austen_house, place: @clifton, description: "Social invitations and related correspondence addressed to photographer Elizabeth Alice Austen in 1887."}
@file_pinax:file -> documents -> @alice_austen_social_invitations_collection:collection
@alice_austen:person {full_name: "Elizabeth Alice Austen", birth: @date_1866, death: @date_1952, occupation: "photographer", residence: @staten_island}
@date_1866
@date_1952
@staten_island:place {city: "Staten Island", state: @new_york, country: @united_states}
@clifton:place {neighborhood: "Clifton", city: @staten_island, country: @united_states}
@mrs_l_hulher:person {full_name: "Mrs. L. Hulher"}
@mary_t_mcall:person {full_name: "Mary T. McAll"}
@miss_townsend:person {full_name: "Miss Townsend"}
@us_corps_of_cadets:organization {full_name: "The United States Corps of Cadets"}
@laura_tennis:person {full_name: "Laura Tennis"}
@david:person {first_name: "David"}
@social_invitations:concept {description: "Printed or handwritten invitations to social events during the Victorian era"}
@victorian_social_life:concept {period: "Victorian era", region: @united_states, description: "Social customs and activities among upper‑middle‑class families in late 19th‑century America"}
@parties:concept {type: "social gathering"}
@events:concept {type: "organized occasions"}
@correspondence:concept {type: "personal letters and notes"}
@date_1887
@date_1887_01_07
@date_1887_02_10
@date_1887_07_15
@date_1887_06_10
@invitation_jan_7_1887:document {type: "social invitation", date: @date_1887_01_07, time: "8:00 PM", location: @clifton, sender: @mrs_l_hulher, recipient: @alice_austen, subject: "Pleasure of your company on Friday evening January 7th 1887"}
@file_1887_1_7_jan_1002_copy_jpg:file -> contains -> @invitation_jan_7_1887:document
@invitation_feb_10_1887:document {type: "dinner invitation", date: @date_1887_02_10, location: @clifton, sender: @mary_t_mcall, recipient: @alice_austen, note: "David is going to have a small dinner on Monday evening and we will all be very glad if you will join us also."}
@file_1887_2_10_feb_1002_marsh_copy_jpg:file -> contains -> @invitation_feb_10_1887:document
@invitation_july_15_1887:document {type: "tennis invitation", date: @date_1887_07_15, time: "4:00 PM – 7:00 PM", location: @clifton, sender: @miss_townsend, recipient: @alice_austen, subject: "Pleasure of your company on Friday afternoon, July 15th"}
@file_1887_7_15_july_1002_copy_jpg:file -> contains -> @invitation_july_15_1887:document
@event_graduating_hop:event {type: "Graduating Hop", date: @date_1887_06_10, location: @clifton, organizer: @us_corps_of_cadets, description: "Celebratory gathering for the United States Corps of Cadets graduating class."}
@invitation_june_10_1887:document {type: "event invitation", date: @date_1887_06_10, location: @clifton, sender: @us_corps_of_cadets, recipient: @alice_austen, subject: "Pleasure of your presence at the Graduating Hop"}
@file_1887_6_10_june_1003_copy_jpg:file -> contains -> @invitation_june_10_1887:document
@us_corps_of_cadets -> organized -> @event_graduating_hop:event
@event_graduating_hop:event -> took place {when: @date_1887_06_10, where: @clifton}Mrs. L. Hulher requests the pleasure of your company on Friday evening January 7th 1887 at 8 O'Clock R.S.V.P. Clifton January 1st 1887
Clifton Feb 10th 1887 My dear Alice, David is going to have a small dinner on Monday evening and we will all be very glad if you will join us also. Sincerely yours, Mary T. McAll.
The United States Corps of Cadets request the pleasure of your presence at the Graduating Hop. to be given Friday evening, June tenth, Eighteen hundred and eighty seven.
Miss Townsend requests the pleasure of your company on Friday afternoon, July 15th, from four until seven o'clock. Laura Tennis 1887.
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