["Beacon Hill House," Arthur Curtiss James house, Beacon Hill Road, Newport, Rhode Island. (LOC)
Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
["Beacon Hill House," Arthur Curtiss James house, Beacon Hill Road, Newport, Rhode Island. Vegetable garden]
[1917 July]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: Howells & Stokes, 1910.
Landscape: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Henry Hill Blossom, Olmsted
Brothers, 1908-1913, 1915-1916, with Hempsted of Boston, contractors.
John Greatorex, gardener. Associated Name: Harriet Parsons (Mrs.
Arthur C.) James. Other: Garden dedicated on August,15, 1913. House
and garden on 39 2/3 acres. Today: House razed in 1967 and garden
acres subdivided.
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 11.
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.21928
Call Number: LC-J717-X110- 223
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Nice
bior (3 months ago | reply)
I love these colored prints where the matting left off and we can see artifacts of the coloring process.
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