Alice Austen

Elizabeth Alice Austen was a Staten Island photographer.

Alices father abandoned the family before she was born, and she was baptized under the name Elizabeth Alice Munn on May 23, 1866, in St. Johns Church on Staten Island. She never used the name Munn and would initial her negatives with EAA for Elizabeth Alice Austen. With no household income and no husband, Alices mother moved back to her own parents home, which was known as Clear Comfort. Alice was the only child in the household, which now consisted of Alices mother, Alice Cornell Austen Alices maternal grandparents, John Haggerty Austen and Elizabeth Alice Townsend . Also in the house were her mothers siblings Peter Austen, who was a chemistry professor at Rutgers University and Mary Austen aka Minnie Austen, who was married to Oswald Mller who was the owner of a shipping company. Oswald was born in Denmark.

Source: Wikipedia