Wedding Invitation Collection
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Description
Suckley‑McCurdy Wedding Invitation Collection (1888)
Overview
The Suckley‑McCurdy Wedding Invitation Collection is a single‑item archival set comprising a printed wedding invitation dated September 19, 1888. The invitation, created by Mrs. Reginald H. Forbes, invites the marriage of Miss Mary Suckley to Mr. Robert H. McCurdy at St. Peter’s Church in Morristown, New Jersey. The collection is held by the Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island, New York, and is catalogued in English.Background
Mrs. Reginald H. Forbes, the mother of Miss Mary Suckley, produced the invitation as a formal request for guests to attend her daughter’s wedding. The event took place in the late‑Victorian era, a period marked by elaborate social rituals and printed invitations that served both as announcements and as markers of social status. The Alice Austen House Museum preserves a range of personal documents from the Austen family and related families, providing context for the social milieu of the time.Contents
The collection contains:- A high‑resolution JPEG image (1888_9‑19‑Sept 2003 copy.jpg) of the invitation, with an accompanying OCR transcription that reads the full text of the card.
- Metadata describing the invitation’s creator, date, place, and subject matter.
- The invitation itself, a printed card featuring a formal design typical of 1880s wedding invitations.
Scope
The collection covers a single event—the wedding of Miss Mary Suckley and Mr. Robert H. McCurdy—held on September 19, 1888, at St. Peter’s Church, Morristown, New Jersey. It is relevant to researchers of Victorian social customs, genealogists tracing the Suckley or McCurdy families, and historians studying the cultural life of late‑19th‑century New Jersey. The collection does not include ancillary items such as photographs of the ceremony or related correspondence; it is limited to the invitation itself and its digital representation.Raw Cheimarros Data
@alice_austen:person {full_name: "Elizabeth Alice Austen", birth: @date_1866, death: @date_1952, occupation: "photographer"}
@alice_austen_house_museum:organization {type: "museum", location: @staten_island, named_after: @alice_austen}
@mrs_reginald_h_forbes:person {role: "creator of collection", relation: "mother of @miss_mary_suckley"}
@miss_mary_suckley:person {gender: "female"}
@mr_robert_h_mccurdy:person {gender: "male"}
@morristown_nj:place {state: "New Jersey", country: @united_states}
@st_peters_church:place {location: @morristown_nj}
@suckley_mccurdy_wedding:event {when: @date_1888_09_19, where: @st_peters_church, participants: [@miss_mary_suckley, @mr_robert_h_mccurdy]}
@wedding_invitation:document {type: "wedding invitation", created: @date_1888_09_19, author: @mrs_reginald_h_forbes, pertains_to: @suckley_mccurdy_wedding}
@wedding_invitation_collection:collection {title: "Wedding Invitation Collection", creator: [@mrs_reginald_h_forbes], institution: @alice_austen_house_museum, created: @date_1888_09_19, subjects: ["Weddings","Social Events","Invitations","Marriage"], description: "A collection containing a wedding invitation for the marriage of Miss Mary Suckley to Mr. Robert H. McCurby in 1888.", language: "en", place: @morristown_nj}
@wedding_invitation_collection -> contains -> @wedding_invitation
@wedding_invitation -> invites -> @miss_mary_suckley
@wedding_invitation -> invites -> @mr_robert_h_mccurdy
@wedding_invitation -> held at -> @st_peters_church
@wedding_invitation -> scheduled for -> @date_1888_09_19Metadata
Files (1)
1888_9-19-Sept 2003 copy.jpgJPEG
OCR Text
Mrs. Reginald H. Forbes requests your presence at the marriage of her daughter Miss Mary Suckley, to Mr. Robert H. McCurdy, 1888 on Wednesday afternoon, September nineteenth, at two o'clock. St. Peter's Church, Morristown, N.J.
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