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Chapter 2: 1880s Recreation

Chapter 2: 1880s Recreation

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 Chapter 2: 1880s Recreation (tennis-mania & summer resorts) Image attributions: (HRT) Historic Richmond Town archive; (AAH) Alice Austen House Museum collection. 22-year-old Alice Austen in 1888 1888 portrait by Austen’s Uncle Oswald Muller. (HRT) Bradish Carroll letter The opening letter from this episode. Bradish Carroll danced the Santiago Waltz with Alice – it is the music from which this podcast theme music was derived. (AAH) 1888 Tennis Group Carrie Ward (top row, left); Nellie Janssen (top row, right); and Bradish Carroll (seated with cane.) (HRT) 1888 Dance Card Dance card showing Alice danced the Santiago Waltz with Bradish Carroll. (AAH) Emily Babbitt & Lieutenant Edwin Babbitt Alice’s tennis doubles partner with his wife, who wrote Alice congratulating her on winning her tennis match. (AAH) 1888 letter from Emily Babbitt Fragment from letter from Emily Babbitt, as part of this chapter’s narrative. (AAH) 1889 Costume Party at a Catskills summer resort Alice & Trude Eccleston dressed as nuns, advertising Pear’s Soap. Charlie Barton seated in military costume. (HRT) 1889 Catskill costume party detail Detail showing Alice & Trude Eccleston dressed as nuns, with Charlie Barton on the floor. (HRT) 1889 in Costume (HRT) 1888 Staten Island’s best women tennis players Published in Outing Magazine, Alice Austen is standing at far right in the top row. (AAH) 1885 Katie with Punch & Chico Alice Cornell Austen often wrote of Katie, the Austens’ live-in helper who, among other duties, tended to the dogs. (HRT) Alice Cornell Austen (Alice’s mother) in 1887 Alice Cornell Austen with Tristan, the cat. (HRT) 1887 scrapbook page Alice’s scrapbook showing 1887 & 1888 tennis news, obituaries, and other items. (AAH) 1887 scrapbook page detail Detail showing Alice’s tennis results, her grandmother’s obituary, and her aunt Mary Austen’s obituary. (AAH) Tennis Club receipts Facing pages showing membership receipts for the Staten Island Ladies Club & the SI neighborhood club, Ladies Tennis Club of Clifton. (HRT) 1888 Tennis Group The photo Nellie Janssen asked for – she is seated at top right. Bradish Carroll is at middle left with striped beanie. (HRT) 1888 scrapbook item Badge to attend the 1888 tennis matches. (AAH) Lake Mahopac, 1888 Lake Mahopac, where Alice joined Trude Eccleston in the summer of 1888. (HRT) Lake Mahopac today Lake Mahopac in 2022. Photograph by Pamela Bannos. 1888 letter from Effie Emmons Fragment from letter from Cushings Island, Maine, as part of this chapter’s narrative. (AAH) 1889 the Ward family Violet Ward (standing, looking right), Carrie Ward (seated far right) and their father, a Civil War general, standing with bugle. (HRT) 1889 Tennis Group Group photo showing several of Alice’s correspondents. (HRT) 1889 Bessie Strong Detail from group showing Bessie Strong. (HRT) 1889 Charlie Barton Detail from group showing Charlie Barton. (HRT) 1889 Effie Emmons Detail from group showing Effie Emmons. (HRT) 1889 Lou Alexander Detail from group showing Lou Alexander. (HRT) 1889 Trude Eccleston Detail from the group showing Trude Eccleston. (HRT) 1888 scrapbook item Clipped cartoon in Austen’s 1888 scrapbook. (AAH) 1888 Alice with Trude’s family at Lake Mahopac Alice at far right; Trude Eccleston seated with Charlie Barton at her feet. (HRT) 1889 Catskills Group at creek in Catskills. Trude Eccleston at far left. From photo album with title, “The Creek.” (HRT) PODCAST TRANSCRIPT Opening: [Bradish J Carroll]My Dear Miss Austen, I have to thank you very much indeed for giving me one of those prints of the tennis match, as I particularly wanted it. I found it at home when I got down from the City today. Had I known it was on the way this morning when I met you on the Boat, I most certainly would have thanked you in person. I am going to frame all of them and hang them in my room so as to keep those pleasant days fresh in my mind.Hoping to have the good fortune to meet you soon at some of the dances. Believe me, Most sincerely yours,Bradish J Carroll +++++++ [Narrator]Mr. Carroll’s mention of meeting Alice Austen at some of the dances ties in with a notable item in Austen’s archive. One of her scrapbook’s dance cards (detailing an evening’s music by song, dance style, and with the penciled name of each dance partner) shows Austen danced the Santiago Waltz with Bradish Carroll in early 1889. It is the melody from which this podcast theme music was derived. I’m Pamela Bannos, in collaboration with the Alice Austen House Museum, and this is My Dear Alice, a podcast series that explores the life of photographer Alice Austen through her photographs and these letters that were discovered decades after her death. Here, we will piece together Austen’s story through her extensive photographic legacy, while filling in new details through these ...
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