@date_1866

@date_1952

@date_1893_10_09


@staten_island:place {state: @new_york, country: @united_states}


@albany:place {state: @new_york, country: @united_states}


@alice_austen_house:organization {type: "museum", location: @staten_island}


@alice_austen:person {full_name: "Elizabeth Alice Austen", birth_year: @date_1866, death_year: @date_1952, occupation: "photographer", location: @staten_island}


@b_watrous:person {full_name: "B. Watrous"}


@mrs_clowell:person {full_name: "Mrs. Clowell"}


@elder_gould:person {full_name: "Elder Gould"}


@mr_c:person {full_name: "Mr. C."}


@mrs_henry:person {full_name: "Mrs. Henry"}


@ecclestoins:place {description: "likely a church referenced in the letter"}


@alice_austen_watrous_correspondence:collection {title: "Alice Austen Correspondence with B. Watrous", created: @date_1893_10_09, institution: @alice_austen_house, subjects: ["Correspondence","Photography","Victorian social life","World's Columbian Exposition","Upper-middle-class families"]}


@file_pinax:file {type: "metadata", format: "PINAX", id: "01KC2APH9Z78BSKRAR5QXAV8J6", title: "Alice Austen Correspondence with B. Watrous", creator: [@b_watrous, @alice_austen], created: @date_1893_10_09, language: "en", place: [@staten_island, @albany]}


@file_1893_10_7_oct_2001_watrous_copy_jpg:file {type: "image", format: "JPEG", ocr_text: "race and can hardly wait for the papers.\nI see the Ecclestoins I do wish they were here for the wonderful trees and mild delicious air.\nAgain hearty thanks for the pictures.\nTruly,\nB. Watrous\nOct 9/93.\n\nMy Dear Alice,\n\nMost hearty thanks for your generosity. It must be a tremendous drain upon your finances. Photography is in itself a big item and the constant demand for set views a drag of 100 small weight. There are at present two dreadful camera fiends here, a gentleman & lady who spend all their time at it;"}


@file_1893_10_7_oct_2002_watrous_copy_jpg:file {type: "image", format: "JPEG", ocr_text: "Grace at Mrs. Clowell's found a dear dog.\nHave wished Elder Gould part out and am ever\nbeyond Mr. C. angry. So he the 8th that we are\nslaves to the weather. He really so the work reasonable\nannual I was gone. Example of Mrs. Henry's love &\nsweet nature calms a month or chip-worn & every\nday good is now offering how to be contact\nwith stately old people! A most \"impossible\"\nletter. We have given it an altar but the house\nof which went to his head and gave us all\noverweight spirit. Are worst opinions about the youth.\n\nThey have taken 7 dozen\nand only one or two failures.\nThey laugh at me because\nI am building mainly with\nstone & wood improvements\nabout the camps each one\nthey say prettier than the\nlast and each day they\nwait a new photograph.\nWords cannot picture the\nmagnificence of Hague &\nthe Lake. Possibly it may\nhave been biliousness but\nme looking at the scenery\nfrom the hill top the least\ncause to my eyes I stole a"}


@letter_page1:document {date: @date_1893_10_09, sender: @b_watrous, recipient: @alice_austen, summary: "Thanks for pictures, mentions financial strain of photography, references Ecclestoins (church) and a request for more images."}


@letter_page2:document {date: @date_1893_10_09, sender: @b_watrous, recipient: @alice_austen, summary: "Mentions Mrs. Clowell's dog, Elder Gould, Mr. C., Mrs. Henry, and describes ongoing photography work and scenic subjects such as Hague and the Lake."}


@alice_austen_watrous_correspondence -> includes -> [@letter_page1, @letter_page2]


@b_watrous -> wrote -> [@letter_page1, @letter_page2]


@alice_austen -> received -> [@letter_page1, @letter_page2]


@letter_page1 -> mentions -> @ecclestoins


@letter_page2 -> mentions -> @mrs_clowell


@letter_page2 -> mentions -> @elder_gould


@letter_page2 -> mentions -> @mr_c


@letter_page2 -> mentions -> @mrs_henry


@alice_austen_watrous_correspondence -> documented by -> @file_pinax


@alice_austen_watrous_correspondence -> stored in -> @alice_austen_house


@alice_austen_watrous_correspondence -> related to -> @worlds_columbian_exposition:event