Chapter 10: Conclusions
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Chapter 10: Conclusions
(a rollercoaster ride of highs & lows)
Image attributions: (HRT) Historic Richmond Town archive; (AAH) Alice Austen House Museum collection.
1894 Effie Emmons Alexander (middle) and Lou Alexander Richards (right)
with Julia Marsh Lord. Austen’s married with children friends. (HRT)
c 1896 Violet Ward in a blizzard at Clear Comfort
while she and Alice Austen spent much time together. (HRT)
c 1910 Auntie Min in her upstairs quarters
Minnie Austen Hicks Muller at Clear Comfort (AAH)
1903 Alice and Gertrude Tate in Scotland
Their first trip abroad. (HRT)
1903 Alice rows for Gertrude Tate
In Trossachs, Scotland. (HRT)
1903 Gertrude Tate on donkey
during 3 months when they traveled to England, France, Scotland, Germany, and Holland.
April 1904 envelope from White Plains
from Julia Martin at the Bloomingdale Hospital for the Insane (AAH)
June 1905 quarantine photos for Dr. Alvah Doty
New York’s Health Officer. New York Tribune.
1905 Gertrude Tate in Paris
Trunk reading EAA (Alice’s initials), door reading ETAT, Tate spelled backwards. (HRT)
1905 Beauvais, France
Alice and Gertrude at morning tea (HRT)
1905 Gertrude Tate & another traveler in France
An early snapshot-type photograph. (HRT)
1905 dance class with Gertrude Tate
Tate in back at right (HRT)
1909 Gertrude Tate in Morocco
at a picnic spread in Tangier. (HRT)
1909 photos by Alice Austen
for Dr. Alvah Doty, New York’s Health Officer. New York Tribune.
1909 Gertrude Tate’s passport
photographed en route in Spain (AAH)
1909 sheep alongside canal in Bruges
one of many copyrighted photos from 1909 (AAH)
1909 photo ledger & scrapbook items
from a 5 month European excursion (HRT)
1910 Alice & Gertrude with Guy Loomis
Tate’s longtime Brooklyn friend, sometimes traveling to Europe together – with his car. (HRT)






















