Wedding Invitation for Josephine Worth Sprague and Alexander Lucien Dade
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Version: 4 (current) | Updated: 12/9/2025, 9:48:51 PM | Created: 12/9/2025, 7:33:39 PM
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Description
Sprague‑Dade Wedding Invitation Collection (1893)
Overview
This collection comprises the digital representation of the wedding invitation for Josephine Worth Sprague and Lieutenant Alexander Lucien Dade, dated 8 August 1893. It includes a high‑resolution JPEG scan of the original card, an OCR‑derived text file, and a JSON metadata record that documents the invitation’s provenance, creators, and contextual details. The materials are held by the Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island, New York.Background
The invitation was issued by Capt. Henry Wilson Hubbell and his wife, Mrs. Hubbell, both officers in the United States Army. It was sent to invite guests to the marriage of the Hubbell sisters’ sister, Josephine Worth Sprague, to Lt. Alexander Lucien Dade. The ceremony was scheduled for 5 p.m. on the same day at St. John’s Church, Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. The document reflects the formal, military‑influenced style of late‑Victorian wedding invitations and provides insight into the social networks of upper‑middle‑class families on Staten Island in the 1890s.Contents
- JPEG Scan (1893_8‑8‑Aug 2002 copy.jpg) – a 448‑KB image of the invitation, captured in 2002, preserving the original layout, typography, and decorative elements.
- OCR Text – extracted from the scan, reproducing the invitation’s wording in English.
- Metadata JSON (pinax.json) – structured data describing the invitation’s title, creators, date, language, subjects, and place of creation, as well as its relationship to the event and the Alice Austen House repository.
Scope
The collection covers a single primary source document from 1893, focused on the wedding of Josephine Worth Sprague and Lt. Alexander Lucien Dade. It includes all digital artifacts directly related to that invitation—image, text, and metadata—but does not contain ancillary materials such as other correspondence, photographs, or related event documents. The collection is valuable for researchers of late‑19th‑century social history, genealogical studies of the Hubbell, Sprague, and Dade families, and the history of military families in New York.Raw Cheimarros Data
@file_pinax:file {title: "Wedding Invitation for Josephine Worth Sprague and Alexander Lucien Dade", creator: "Capt. & Mrs. Henry Wilson Hubbell", created: @date_1893_08_08, language: "en"}
@file_1893_8_8_aug_2002_copy_jpg:file {description: "Scanned image of wedding invitation with OCR text"}
@josephine_worth_sprague:person {full_name: "Josephine Worth Sprague"}
@alexander_lucien_dade:person {full_name: "Alexander Lucien Dade", rank: "Lieut.", branch: "United States Army"}
@henry_wilson_hubbell:person {full_name: "Henry Wilson Hubbell", rank: "Capt.", affiliation: "United States Army"}
@mrs_hubbell:person {full_name: "Mrs. Henry Wilson Hubbell"}
@st_johns_church:place {name: "St. John's Church"}
@fort_wadsworth:place {name: "Fort Wadsworth", location: @staten_island}
@staten_island:place {city: "Staten Island", state: "New York", country: @united_states}
@sprague_dade_wedding_invitation:document {title: "Wedding Invitation for Josephine Worth Sprague and Alexander Lucien Dade", creator: [@henry_wilson_hubbell, @mrs_hubbell], created: @date_1893_08_08, language: "en", subjects: ["Wedding","Marriage","Invitation","Military","St. John's Church","Fort Wadsworth"]}
@sprague_dade_wedding:event {date: @date_1893_08_08, location: [@st_johns_church, @fort_wadsworth]}
@sprague_dade_wedding_invitation -> documents -> @sprague_dade_wedding:event
@sprague_dade_wedding:event -> involves -> [@josephine_worth_sprague, @alexander_lucien_dade]
@sprague_dade_wedding:event -> held at -> [@st_johns_church, @fort_wadsworth]
@sprague_dade_wedding:event -> date -> @date_1893_08_08
@sprague_dade_wedding_invitation -> created by -> [@henry_wilson_hubbell, @mrs_hubbell]
@file_pinax -> documents -> @sprague_dade_wedding_invitation
@file_1893_8_8_aug_2002_copy_jpg -> depicts -> @sprague_dade_wedding_invitation
@alice_austen:person {full_name: "Elizabeth Alice Austen", birth_year: @date_1866, death_year: @date_1952, occupation: "photographer"}
@alice_austen_house:organization {name: "Alice Austen House Museum", location: @staten_island}
@alice_austen_house -> holds -> @sprague_dade_wedding_invitationMetadata
Files (1)
1893_8-8-Aug 2002 copy.jpgJPEG
OCR Text
Capt. & Mrs. Henry Wilson Hubbell request your presence at the marriage of their sister, Josephine Worth Sprague to Lieut. Alexander Lucien Dade, United States Army. Tuesday, August the eighth, at five o'clock, St. John's Church, Fort Wadsworth, 1893.
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"Reorganization group: Wedding_Invitation"
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