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["Armsea Hall," Charles Frederick Hoffman Jr. house, Narragansett Bay, Newport, Rhode Island. (LOC)

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

 

["Armsea Hall," Charles Frederick Hoffman Jr. house, Narragansett Bay, Newport, Rhode Island. Rose Trellis]

 

[1914 summer]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: Francis Laurens Vinton Hoppin, Hoppin & Koen, completed 1901. Landscape: Olmsted Brothers, 1911-1918. Associated Name: Zelia Krumbhaar (Mrs. Charles F.) Hoffman, Jr. Today: House and garden not extant.

On slide (handwritten): "H" and "Hoffman, Chas. F., Newport."

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).

 

Subjects:

Gardens--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920.

Trellises--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920.

Roses--Rhode Island--Newport--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.16237

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X100- 28

 

 

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Uploaded on May 18, 2012
Taken sometime in 1914