["The Breakers," Cornelius Vanderbilt II house, 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island. (LOC)

    Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.

    ["The Breakers," Cornelius Vanderbilt II house, 44 Ochre Point Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island. Loggia parterre]

    [1914 summer]

    1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.

    Notes:
     Site History. House Architecture: Richard Morris Hunt, 1892-1896. Landscape: Ernest William Bowditch and James Higginson Bowditch. Associated Name: Alice Gwynne (Mrs. Cornelius) Vanderbilt II. Today: Public site of the Preservation Society of Newport County and a National Historic Landmark.
    On slide (handwritten): "V" and "Mrs. Vanderbilt."
    Photographed when Frances Benjamin Johnston and Mattie Edwards Hewitt worked together.
    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. Plate 3.

    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.16771

    Call Number: LC-J717-X108- 44

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