in the stock market crash of 1929 and she and Tate were evicted from their beloved home in 1945. Tate and Austen were finally separated by family rejection of their relationship and poverty. Austen was moved to the Staten Island Farm Colony where Tate would visit her weekly. In 1951 Austen's photographs were rediscovered by historian Oliver Jensen and money was raised by the publication of her photographs to place Austen in private nursing home care. On June 9, 1952 Austen passed away. The final wishes of Austen and Tate to be buried together were denied by their families. Timeline 1866: Birth and baptism 1876: Begins photographing 1899: Meets Gertrude Tate 1917: Gertrude Tate moves in 1929: Stock market crash 1945: Evicted from home 1950: Declared a pauper then her rediscovery 1951: Alice Austen day 1952: Death 1976: Clear Comfort becomes National Landmark 2017: Landmark Designation Amended to include LGBTQ history as an area of significance Legacy The Alice Austen School, PS 60, located on Merril Avenue in the Bulls Head neighborhood of Staten Island, is named in her honor as is a Staten Island Ferry boat. Playwright Robin Rice's drama Alice in Black and White traces Austen's life from 1876 to 1951. The play also follows Oliver Jensen's search for and discovery of Austen and her glass plate negatives. The play received its world premiere at the Kentucky Center followed by a New York City premiere at 59E59 Theaters in 2016, the 150th anniversary of Austen's birth. (Both productions with Looking for Lilith Theatre Company). The play won the StageWrite Women's Theatre Initiative Award. Her life and work inspired the fiction book Alice Austen Lived Here by Alex Gino, in which two non-binary middle schoolers do a US History report about Austen. Gallery References Further reading Austen, Alice: Street Types of New York. New York: The Albertype Company, 1896; facsimile reprint, Staten Island, N.Y; Friends of Alice Austen House, 1994 New York Times, October 6, 1951, page 12; "Alice Austen Day" ‘The Newly Discovered Picture World of Alice Austen: Great Woman Photographer Steps Out of the Past’, Life (24 Sept 1951), pp. 137–44 Gerhard Bissell, Austen, Alice, in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (Artists of the World), Suppl. I, Saur, Munich 2005, p. 541 (in German). Buckwalter, Margaret: Alice Austen: Commemorative Journal: Alice Austen Museum, 1986 Grover, C. Jane: The Positive Image: Women Photographers in Turn-of-the-Century America: State University of New York