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Version: 4 (current) | Updated: 12/9/2025, 9:43:00 PM | Created: 12/9/2025, 7:29:23 PM
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Each image’s OCR text is provided in the metadata, allowing quick verification of the address details. The envelopes illustrate Austen’s connections with local residents, legal professionals, and distant acquaintances.
@alice_austen:person {full_name: "Elizabeth Alice Austen", birth_year: @date_1866, death_year: @date_1952, occupation: "photographer", residence: @rosebank_staten_island:place}
@alice_austen_house:organization {type: "museum", location: @staten_island:place}
@alice_austen_correspondence_collection:collection {title: "Alice Austen Correspondence Envelopes and Addresses Collection", creator: @alice_austen, institution: @alice_austen_house, created: @date_1892, subjects: ["Correspondence","Envelopes","Addresses","Social life","Victorian era","Staten Island"], description: "Collection of envelope images and addresses from Alice Austen's correspondence, primarily from 1892. Includes addresses to and from Alice Austen in Staten Island, New York."}
@file_pinax:file {title: "Alice Austen Correspondence Envelopes and Addresses Collection", creator: @alice_austen, created: @date_1892, language: "en", subjects: ["Correspondence","Envelopes","Addresses","Social life","Victorian era","Staten Island"]}
@alice_austen_correspondence_collection -> includes -> [@file_1892_4_19_april_8001_hkg_copy_jpg, @file_1892_4_20_april_5001_strong_copy_jpg, @file_1892_4_4_april_1_004_copy_jpg, @file_1892_4_april_6002_copy_jpg, @file_1892_5_1_may_1001_aca_copy_jpg, @file_1892_5_3_may_11001_copy_jpg]
@file_1892_4_19_april_8001_hkg_copy_jpg:file {type: "image", ocr_text: "Miss E. Alice Austin\nClifton -\nStaten Island -\nNew York"} {date: @date_1892_04_19}
@clifton_staten_island:place {city: "Clifton", borough: @staten_island:place, state: @new_york:place, country: @united_states:place}
@file_1892_4_19_april_8001_hkg_copy_jpg -> contains -> @clifton_staten_island
@alice_austen -> addressed to -> @clifton_staten_island {when: @date_1892_04_19}
@file_1892_4_20_april_5001_strong_copy_jpg:file {type: "image", ocr_text: "Miss E.A. Austen\nRosebank,\nStaten Island.\nNew York."} {date: @date_1892_04_20}
@rosebank_staten_island:place {neighborhood: "Rosebank", borough: @staten_island:place, state: @new_york:place, country: @united_states:place}
@file_1892_4_20_april_5001_strong_copy_jpg -> contains -> @rosebank_staten_island
@bessie_strong:person {full_name: "Bessie Strong"}
@bessie_strong -> sent -> @file_1892_4_20_april_5001_strong_copy_jpg {when: @date_1892_04_20}
@file_1892_4_4_april_1_004_copy_jpg:file {type: "image", ocr_text: "Miss Clara Huston\nRoseland\nStaten Island\nN.Y."} {date: @date_1892_04_04}
@clara_huston:person {full_name: "Clara Huston"}
@roseland_staten_island:place {neighborhood: "Roseland", borough: @staten_island:place, state: @new_york:place, country: @united_states:place}
@file_1892_4_4_april_1_004_copy_jpg -> contains -> @roseland_staten_island
@clara_huston -> recipient -> @roseland_staten_island {when: @date_1892_04_04}
@file_1892_4_april_6002_copy_jpg:file {type: "image", ocr_text: "Miss Alice Austen\nRosebank\nStaten Island\nN.Y."} {date: @date_1892_04_01}
@file_1892_4_april_6002_copy_jpg -> contains -> @rosebank_staten_island
@alice_austen -> recipient -> @rosebank_staten_island {when: @date_1892_04_01}
@file_1892_5_1_may_1001_aca_copy_jpg:file {type: "image", ocr_text: "Heads on account of one of the Professors at Lehigh becoming insane ... Sunday May 1st 92 ... My dearest Lottie, ..."} {date: @date_1892_05_01}
@file_1892_5_3_may_11001_copy_jpg:file {type: "image", ocr_text: "Judge Woodbridge &\n272 Hamilton St.\nNew Brunswick\nN.J.\n\nMiss Alice Van\nProsehank P.L.\nLong Island\n\nP. Due 1¢"} {date: @date_1892_05_03}
@hamilton_st_272_new_brunswick:nj:place {address: "272 Hamilton St.", city: "New Brunswick", state: @new_jersey:place, country: @united_states:place}
@file_1892_5_3_may_11001_copy_jpg -> contains -> @hamilton_st_272_new_brunswick:nj
@judge_woodbridge:person {title: "Judge"}
@judge_woodbridge -> associated with -> @hamilton_st_272_new_brunswick:nj {when: @date_1892_05_03}
@alice_van:person {full_name: "Alice Van"}
@alice_van -> residence -> @long_island:place {when: @date_1892_05_03}
@long_island:place {state: @new_york:place, country: @united_states:place}
@julia_t_martin:person {full_name: "Julia T. Martin", location: @albany:place}
@julie_bredt:person {full_name: "Julie Bredt"}
@violet_m_e_ward:person {full_name: "Violet M.E. Ward"}
@isabella_king:person {full_name: "Isabella King", occupation: "photograph buyer"}
@alice_austen -> corresponded with -> [@julia_t_martin, @julie_bredt, @violet_m_e_ward, @isabella_king, @bessie_strong] {period: @date_1883, end: @date_1898}Miss E. Alice Austin Clifton - Staten Island - New York
Miss E.A. Austen Rosebank, Staten Island. New York.
Miss Clara Huston Roseland Staten Island N.Y.
Miss Alice Austen Rosebank Staten Island N.Y.
Heads on account of one of the Professors at Lehigh becoming insane from the shouting and taunting of the students. His name is Dwight Carroll, instructor in physics, they lislequed him at that Minstrel show, in such a way that his mind broke down from mortification. Your Grandpa asks every day when you are coming home, he is going to take you to the Casino. I am glad you went to the Art lecture, how is Charlie Ludlow? Did you just forget your hand glass? Write me of there or anything you want me to do, good night My blessed child yours, Sunday May 1st 92 My dearest Lottie, I was very glad to get your note yesterday, just as I was starting for the city. I went to Masay's and got a few things, Pond, which has gone up three cents, a pinanthion like a tomato for the sewing basket, etc. I never saw so few people in Masay's, I took oysters for lunch for
Judge Woodbridge & 272 Hamilton St. New Brunswick N.J. Miss Alice Van Prosehank P.L. Long Island P. Due 1¢
No children (leaf entity)