"Las Tejas," Oakleigh Thorne house, 170 Picacho Road, Montecito, California. (LOC)

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

 

["Las Tejas," Oakleigh Thorne house, 170 Picacho Road, Montecito, California. View from swimming pool pavilion to house]

 

[1923 spring]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: Remodel and addition to existing adobe house, designed by William Alston Hayne II, by Francis W. Wilson after purchase by Oakleigh Thorne in 1917. Landscape: Helen S. (Mrs. Oakleigh) Thorne, on 26 acres. Other: Oakleigh Thorne was W.O.S. Thorne. Today: Subdivided.

Slide used with lecture "California Gardens."

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. Figure 26b.

 

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.16037

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X97- 38

 

 

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