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Michael Cochrane Armour house, 962 Linda Vista Avenue, Pasadena, California. (LOC)

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

 

[Michael Cochrane Armour house, 962 Linda Vista Avenue, Pasadena, California. Lily pool]

 

[1917 spring]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: John Constantine Hillman, begun ca. 1912. Landscape: Robert Gordon Fraser and/or Thomas Chisholm, landscape gardeners from 1910. Associated Name: Minnie Huggins (Mrs. Michael C.) Armour. Other: Land purchased from W. W. Wilson. Today: Garden not extant.

Slide used with lecture California Gardens as no. 20.

On slide: Yellow-gold star sticker.

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 118.

 

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.16013

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X97- 14

 

 

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Uploaded on April 20, 2012
Taken sometime in 1917