["Gray Gardens," Robert Carmer Hill house, Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton, New York. (LOC)
Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
["Gray Gardens," Robert Carmer Hill house, Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton, New York. Northeast gate to garden]
[ca. 1914]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: Joseph Greenleaf Thorp, 1897.
Landscape: Anna Gilman (Mrs. Robert C.) Hill. Other: Robert C. Hill
acquired the house and four acres and half in 1913; Edith Bouvier
Beale owned this house, now known as "Grey Gardens, from the
1920s. Today: House extant and the garden restored.
On slide (handwritten): "H" and "Hill, Mrs. Robt.
C."
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).
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.16859
Call Number: LC-J717-X109- 54
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