"Las Tejas," Oakleigh Thorne house, 170 Picacho Road, Montecito, California. (LOC)
Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
["Las Tejas," Oakleigh Thorne house, 170 Picacho Road, Montecito, California. View from swimming pool pavilion to house]
[1923 spring]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: Remodel and addition to existing
adobe house, designed by William Alston Hayne II, by Francis W. Wilson
after purchase by Oakleigh Thorne in 1917. Landscape: Helen S. (Mrs.
Oakleigh) Thorne, on 26 acres. Other: Oakleigh Thorne was W.O.S.
Thorne. Today: Subdivided.
Slide used with lecture "California Gardens."
Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011.
Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances
Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
Published in: Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York
: Acanthus Press, 2012. Figure 26b.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16037
Call Number: LC-J717-X97- 38
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John of Wirral (8 months ago | reply)
This is a beautiful set of garden pictures.
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pmfordseattle (7 months ago | reply)
this set is wonderful. thank you so much for posting!
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