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1908 Grand-Manoeuvres Military Kitchen Equipment Print

Old Antique Historical Victorian Prints Maps and Historic Fine Art----------. 1908 Grand-Manoeuvres Military Kitchen Equipment Print Page From An Issue 1908 L'Ilustration Published France. Size 15 X 11 Inches S French Social History Size Approx 15 X11 Inchesod Engravings From Sketches, Or Early Photographs Would Make An Ideal Gift For Christmas Or Birthday The Actual Date Is Sometimes Printed On Each This Engraving Is Over 70 Years Old. And Is Not A Modern Copy These Images Are Scanned At Low Resolution For Quick Uploading And Are Much Better Than The Scanned Image. Size Of Print Is Approx ; X 9 ( 330 X 230) If It Is Shown As Whole Page, Or Prorata. Approx. Page Size = 15 High X 11 Wide ( 390 X 280) Ready To Matt And Frame. These Old Prints Really Look Great With Matt And Framed. Note This Print Is From A Periodical And Printing On Reverse.

Rosebank, Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States


The Austen House began as a one room frame dwelling, built between 1691 and 1710. Through many years of gradual additions and alterations the original structure expanded into the charming cottage we know today.

When John Austen purchased the property in 1844, the Dutch type farmhouse consisted of an L-shaped structure. The earlier frame section parallels the Narrows and the pre-Revolutionary masonry wing extends to the rear or the West. Austen added a room to the North end of the frame wing two years later, making the house T-shaped in plan.

The transformation to the Gothic Revival style took place during this alteration, with the insertion of the dormers in the graceful sweep of the Dutch Style roof. Some of the decorative ornament remains on the gables of the dormers, but the handsome roof cresting that once decorated the ridge is gone, as are the scalloped shingles that added a rhythmic pattern to the roof.

The pre-Revolutionary kitchen in the rear, built of plastered stone, contains a large fireplace with its original bake oven. As was sometimes the custom in these early houses, this kitchen, now joined to the house by a connecting room, was believed to have been originally erected free of the main house.

''Clear Comfort'' , was the name given to this picturesque cottage that stands on waterfront property overlooking The Narrows, on a site of unparalleled scenic beauty within the City of New York. James Renwick, architect and friend of the Austen family, is credited with the Gothic Revival character of the long low wing facing The Narrows. Situated in beautifully landscaped grounds, this charming house with its excellent proportions, fine details and porch posts mantled in vines, was a showplace on Staten Island in the second half of the nineteenth century.

From Alice Austen's artistic photographic record made during the 1880s and 1890s, we can see the undeniable beauty of the house in its setting, which leaves the viewer with a deep impression of architectural romanticism, beguiling enchantment and a nostalgia for this Victorian world.
E. Alice Austen (1866-1952) pioneer woman photographer, founder of the Staten Island Historical Society, the Antiquarian Society and the Garden Club, lived in the Austen Cottage for over seventy-five years.

From her two uncles and her grandfather, from whom she inherited the house, she learned to operate early wooden cameras and to develop plates. By the time she was eighteen, she was a skillful photographer in all branches of this new art. From the 1880s to the 1930s, working with bulky equipment, Miss Austen recorded the panorama of the American scene with accurate precision, human warmth and historical significance. During those fifty years she produced over seven thousand negatives, and this remarkable collection is now the property of the Staten Island Historical Society.

During the depression Miss Austen experienced financial reverses. Later, she lost her home and her personal belongings, suffered adversity and crippling illness and eventually became an inmate of the City Farm Colony. Through the efforts of friends and admirers, she was rescued from destitution and oblivion. Ultimately part of her work was sold and reproduced in the Daily News, Life Magazine, Holiday and American Heritage.

Miss Austen lived long enough to be recognized as one of America's foremost women photographers and to be feted by the Historical Society and her fellow Islanders. It is the hope of a committee known as ''The Friends of the Alice Austen House" that her family home will be saved, as part of the esplanade project, and be restored and be used as a photographic museum exhibiting her work.

- From the 1971 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report

Rosebank, Staten Island

The Austen House began as a one room frame dwelling, built between 1691 and 1710. Through many years of gradual additions and alterations the original structure expanded into the charming cottage we know today.

When John Austen purchased the property in 1844, the Dutch type farmhouse consisted of an L-shaped structure. The earlier frame section parallels the Narrows and the pre-Revolutionary masonry wing extends to the rear or the West. Austen added a room to the North end of the frame wing two years later, making the house T-shaped in plan.

The transformation to the Gothic Revival style took place during this alteration, with the insertion of the dormers in the graceful sweep of the Dutch Style roof. Some of the decorative ornament remains on the gables of the dormers, but the handsome roof cresting that once decorated the ridge is gone, as are the scalloped shingles that added a rhythmic pattern to the roof.

The pre-Revolutionary kitchen in the rear, built of plastered stone, contains a large fireplace with its original bake oven. As was sometimes the custom in these early houses, this kitchen, now joined to the house by a connecting room, was believed to have been originally erected free of the main house.

''Clear Comfort'' , was the name given to this picturesque cottage that stands on waterfront property overlooking The Narrows, on a site of unparalleled scenic beauty within the City of New York. James Renwick, architect and friend of the Austen family, is credited with the Gothic Revival character of the long low wing facing The Narrows. Situated in beautifully landscaped grounds, this charming house with its excellent proportions, fine details and porch posts mantled in vines, was a showplace on Staten Island in the second half of the nineteenth century.

From Alice Austen's artistic photographic record made during the 1880s and 1890s, we can see the undeniable beauty of the house in its setting, which leaves the viewer with a deep impression of architectural romanticism, beguiling enchantment and a nostalgia for this Victorian world.

E. Alice Austen (1866-1952) pioneer woman photographer, founder of the Staten Island Historical Society, the Antiquarian Society and the Garden Club, lived in the Austen Cottage for over seventy-five years.

From her two uncles and her grandfather, from whom she inherited the house, she learned to operate early wooden cameras and to develop plates. By the time she was eighteen, she was a skillful photographer in all branches of this new art. From the 1880s to the 1930s, working with bulky equipment, Miss Austen recorded the panorama of the American scene with accurate precision, human warmth and historical significance. During those fifty years she produced over seven thousand negatives, and this remarkable collection is now the property of the Staten Island Historical Society.

During the depression Miss Austen experienced financial reverses. Later, she lost her home and her personal belongings, suffered adversity and crippling illness and eventually became an inmate of the City Farm Colony. Through the efforts of friends and admirers, she was rescued from destitution and oblivion. Ultimately part of her work was sold and reproduced in the Daily News, Life Magazine, Holiday and American Heritage.

Miss Austen lived long enough to be recognized as one of America's foremost women photographers and to be feted by the Historical Society and her fellow Islanders. It is the hope of a committee known as ''The Friends of the Alice Austen House" that her family home will be saved, as part of the esplanade project, and be restored and be used as a photographic museum exhibiting her work.

- From the 1971 NYCLPC Landmark Designation Report

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