[Gardener watering cold frame plants, posed to illustrate Rudyard Kipling's poem The Glory of the Garden] (LOC)

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

 

[Gardener watering cold frame plants, posed to illustrate Rudyard Kipling's poem The Glory of the Garden]

 

[1917, printed later]

 

1 photographic print ; 10 x 8 inches.

 

Notes:

No. R.I. 1105.

No. 359.

Title and date information provided by Sam Watters, 2012.

Print made by the Library of Congress.

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Subjects:

Kipling, Rudyard,--1865-1936.--Glory of the garden.

Gardeners--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920.

Flowers--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920.

Gardening--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920.

Men--Employment--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920.

 

Format: Photographic prints--1910-1920.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C., 20540 USA

 

Frances Benjamin Johnston posed gardeners performing gardening jobs to illustrate the popular poem, The Glory of the Garden, by Rudyard Kipling. She submitted the photographs to the magazine Country Life in America, which did not publish the series. Today it is not known how many photos the series had, but the Library has 5 scenes, including prints with publication crop marks. (Source: Sam Watters, Gardens for a Beautiful America (2012), p. 28.)

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c25728

 

Call Number: LOT 12641-1 [item]

 

 

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