Writing and Reading

      [1] A nationally significant photographer, Austen resided there from about 1867, when she was an infant, until 1945, near the end of her life. [2] The house is primarily significant as the most important resource associated with the life and work of Alice Austen. [3] Austen is considered one of the first women photographers in America to work outside of the confines of a studio. [4] Her early body of work, which chronicles Staten Island, New York City, and other places and particularly focuses on the lives of her family, friends, and social circle, is considered among the finest produced in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. [5] In the 1890s, Austen’s work became increasingly public. [6] She ventured into the streets of Manhattan to photograph immigrants at work and also traveled to local Quarantine stations to document their operations, as well as the lives of immigrants living at these stations.

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