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Alice Austen Invitations and Event Notices Collection

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Description

Alice Austen Invitations and Event Notices Collection

Overview

The Alice Austen Invitations and Event Notices Collection is a digitized set of five paper invitations and event notices dated 1885. The items were curated by New York University, Rutgers College, and Rev. Dr. & Mrs. J. C. Eccleston and are housed in the Alice Austen House Museum on Staten Island. Each item is a high‑resolution JPEG scan of an original invitation, preserved in English and formatted for archival access.

Background

The collection reflects the social milieu of the late‑Victorian upper‑middle class in New York and its environs. Alice Austen (1866‑1952), a pioneering photographer and resident of Clifton, Staten Island, was active in the social circles of her time. The invitations were produced by institutions and families with whom Austen maintained personal and professional ties, offering a window into the networks that shaped her life and work.

Contents

The five scanned items include:
  • NYU Commencement Invitation – a formal notice for the Class of
  • Raw Cheimarros Data

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    Files (5)

    1885_6-june 1001 copy.jpgJPEG
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    Class of 1885. New York University Commencement. Thursday morning, June eighteenth, at half past ten o'clock. Academy of Music.

    1885_6-june 1002 copy.jpgJPEG
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    Class of '85 A. W. Barnes. W. T. Breakell. A. D. Davis. R. O. Fuller. G. C. Halsted. F. B. Ham. C. R. Hexamer. D. Jacobson. J. Lason. R. H. Middleditch. G. A. Minasian. F. E. Pratt. J. Rosenthal. W. Shannon. L. L. Tribus. A. S. Tuttle. H. J. Wright.

    1885_6-june 2001 copy.jpgJPEG
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    Prof. and Mrs. Austin Easton Avenue

    1885_6-june 2002 copy.jpgJPEG
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    President and Mrs. Gates request the pleasure of your company on Wednesday evening, June 17th 1885. from eight until eleven o'clock. Rutgers College Campus. New Brunswick, N.J.

    1885_7-15-July 1002 copy.jpgJPEG
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    Rev. Dr. & Mrs. J. C. Eccleston request your presence at the marriage of their daughter Edith, to Lieut. Albert C. Blunt, 5th U.S. Artillery. on Wednesday evening, July fifteenth, 1885 at half past seven o'clock. St. John's Church. Clifton, Staten Island.

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