Alys Louise Mercer and Easton M. Mahon Davell Wedding Announcement
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Description
Wedding Announcement of Alys Louise Mercer and Easton M. Mahon Davell (1898)
Overview
This collection comprises the original printed wedding announcement for the marriage of Alys Louise Mercer to Easton M. Mahon Davell, issued on February 14, 1898. It is preserved in the Alice Austen House Museum’s digitized holdings and includes a high‑resolution JPEG scan of the announcement, an OCR‑derived text file, and a JSON metadata record detailing the event, its participants, and provenance.Background
The announcement was made by Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Frelinghuysen Mercer, parents of the bride, in Newark, New Jersey. The event reflects the social customs of late‑Victorian upper‑middle‑class families in the northeastern United States. The Alice Austen House, located on Staten Island, NY, maintains this document as part of its broader Austen Family Papers, which document the personal and professional life of photographer Alice Austen.Contents
- JPEG Scan (≈1.6 MB) – a faithful reproduction of the printed announcement, including the parents’ names, the bride and groom’s full names, the date, and the location.
- OCR Text – machine‑readable transcription of the announcement’s wording, useful for text‑based searches.
- JSON Metadata – structured data describing the event (type, date, place), participants (parents, bride, groom), and institutional provenance (Alice Austen House).
- Supporting JSON Entities – a linked‑data representation of places, people, and the event, facilitating semantic queries.
Scope
The collection covers a single social announcement dated February 14, 1898, in Newark, New Jersey. It is limited to the printed announcement and its digital representations; no additional correspondence, photographs, or related documents are included. The material is relevant to researchers of late‑19th‑century social history, genealogical studies of the Mercer and Davell families, and scholars examining the archival practices of the Alice Austen House.Raw Cheimarros Data
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@staten_island:place {state: @new_york, country: @united_states}
@new_jersey:place {type: "state", country: @united_states}
@newark_nj:place {city: "Newark", state: @new_jersey, country: @united_states}
@alys_louise_mercer:person {full_name: "Alys Louise Mercer"}
@easton_m_mahons_davell:person {full_name: "Easton M. Mahon Davell"}
@frederick_frelinghuysen_mercer:person {full_name: "Frederick Frelinghuysen Mercer"}
@wedding_announcement_1898:event {type: "wedding announcement", when: @date_1898_02_14, where: @newark_nj, description: "Announcement of marriage between Alys Louise Mercer and Easton M. Mahon Davell"}
@marriage_1898:event {type: "marriage", when: @date_1898_02_14, where: @newark_nj, participants: [@alys_louise_mercer, @easton_m_mahons_davell]}
@frederick_frelinghuysen_mercer -> parent of -> @alys_louise_mercer
@frederick_frelinghuysen_mercer -> announced -> @wedding_announcement_1898:event {with: @easton_m_mahons_davell}
@alys_louise_mercer -> married to -> @easton_m_mahons_davell {when: @date_1898_02_14, where: @newark_nj}
@file_pinax -> documents -> @wedding_announcement_1898:event {source: "PINAX", created: @date_1898_02_14}
@file_1898_2_14_alys_mercer_frederick_frelinghuysen_mercer002_copy_jpg -> contains -> @wedding_announcement_1898:event {format: "image with OCR"}
@alice_austen_house -> holds -> @file_pinaxMetadata
Files (1)
1898_2-14-Alys-Mercer-frederick frelinghuysen mercer002 copy.jpgJPEG
OCR Text
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Frelinghuysen Mercer announce the marriage of their daughter Alys Louise to Mr. Easton M. Mahon Davell on Monday, February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Newark, New Jersey.
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"Reorganization group: Wedding_Announcement"
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