["Grey-Croft," Stephen Swete Cummins house, Huntting Lane, East Hampton, New York. (LOC)

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

    ["Grey-Croft," Stephen Swete Cummins house, Huntting Lane, East Hampton, New York. Japanese iris garden, rustic bridge]

    [1913 July]

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

    Notes:
     Site History. House Architecture: Isaac Henry Green Jr. for Lorenzo Guernsey Woodhouse. Landscape: Emma Woodhouse (Mrs. Stephen S.) Cummins. Other: Emma Woodhouse Cummins (1846-1908), after being married to Lorenzo Guernsey Woodhouse, the uncle of Lorenzo E. Woodhouse, married Stephen Swete Cummins in 1906. On the death of his wife, he married the poet and editor of Lyric Magazine, Virginia Kent Cummins. Today: part of the Nature Trail and Bird Sanctuary, East Hampton.
    On slide (handwritten): "C," "Cummings," [sic] and partially obscured number possibly "57." Also, blue star sticker, gold star sticker, and red stroke line.
    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 85.

    Subjects:
     Japanese gardens--New York (State)--East Hampton--1910-1920.
    Pedestrian bridges--New York (State)--East Hampton--1910-1920.
    Rustic work--New York (State)--East Hampton--1910-1920.

    Format: Lantern slides--Hand-colored--1910-1920.

    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.16223

    Call Number: LC-J717-X100- 14

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