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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 in military costume. (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)