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She challenged the very rigid social norms of the Victorian era through her life and work and used her keen eye to capture in stills the great movements reshaping the world around her. Meet Alice Austin. Elizabeth Alice Munn was born on March 17th, 1866 in New York to Alice Cornell Austin and Edward Stopford Munn. Her family was wealthy, but her early years were not without drama. Her father left the family around 1869, and for the rest of her life, Alice chose to use her mother's maiden name. After her father's departure, Alice and her mother moved into a cottage on Staten Island called Clear Comfort. The house would serve as Alice's home for the majority of her life. When Alice was 10 years old, her uncle, a man named Oswald, brought her a present back from a trip to Germany that would change her life forever, a camera. Another uncle, this one a chemist, taught her how to develop photographs. Alice had found her passion. Today, when most of us have camera phones readily available in our pockets, it's hard to imagine the complicated ordeal that was photography in the late 19th century. Alice experimented with the equipment, exposure times, and development techniques, taking detailed notes to make adjustments for improvement. She used a closet on the second floor of the house as a dark room. Alice practiced nonstop, photographing her family and friends at home, on mountainous and beachside excursions, at sporting events, at celebratory gatherings, and more. By the age of 18, Alice's mastery of the medium was evident. She would continue to take photos almost daily for five decades. Her photographs give a real sense of a bygone era, a time of great optimism around technological innovation. When a friend of hers, Violet Ward, wrote a book entitled Bicycling for Ladies, Alice took photos of another friend modeling proper bike technique. Alice utilized her skills outside of her social circle, too, providing insight into the world of Victorian New York City. She photographed fishmongers, street sweepers, shoe shiners, and all the typical characters of New York City's hustle and bustle. Her work was highly atypical of women at that time. In the early 1890s, Alice began documenting immigrant quarantine sites in New York City. A huge number of immigrants, 500,000 a year, came through Ellis Island during that period. Before the immigrants could move beyond, authorities required that they quarantine just south of where Alice lived. She was asked to take photos of the quarantine stations by the US Public Health Service. She was drawn in by the facilities and people inhabiting them and came back to photograph the people there every year for a decade. In the 1890s, Alice also took photos beyond her home city, traveling through the US and Europe, practicing her craft. Then in 1899, Alice met the person who would become her lifelong partner, Gertrude Tate. Alice was on a trip to the Catskills. Gertrude, a Brooklyn resident, was there too, recovering from typhoid. The two spent the summer together. When they returned to New York City, Alice and Gertrude continued to spend weekends together and became travel companions. Then in 1917, Gertrude moved into clear comfort, Alice's cottage. In her relationship, as with her work, Alice strayed from the strict norms of Victorian society. The couple's families disapproved. Still, they lived happily for quite some time, a period captured in Alice's photographs. Then in 1929, Alice and Gertrude came on hard times. When the stock market crashed, Alice lost her money and therefore her ability to support their lives as a couple. Alice was sent to the Staten Island farm colony, a home for the poor. Gertrude visited weekly. Alice lived there until 1951, when a historian found her photos, sold them, and used the money to move Alice into a private nursing home. Alice died the following year on June 9, 1952. She was 86 years old. Alice and Gertrude instructed their families to bury them together. The families did not do so. Today, Alice and Gertrude's home, clear comfort, is the Alice Austin House Museum. The US National Park Service has designated it a national site of LGBTQ history. Alice Austin helped develop and popularize documentary photography. She captured her private world and the broader, rapidly changing society in which she lived. She did so while refusing to acquiesce to restrictive, misogynistic, homophobic rules of the day. All month, we're talking about local legends. For more on why we're doing what we're doing, check out our newsletter, Womanica Weekly. Find us on Facebook and Instagram at Encyclopedia Womanica. Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator. 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