["Old Acres," Robert Low Bacon house, Old Westbury, New York. (LOC)

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

 

["Old Acres," Robert Low Bacon house, Old Westbury, New York. Steps from rose garden to wild flower sanctuary]

 

[1922 April]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: John Russell Pope, 1904-1910. Landscape: Martha Brookes Brown Hutcheson, 1904-1910. Associated Name: Virginia Murray (Mrs. Robert L.) Bacon. Other: House also known as "Oldfields." Today: House but not garden extant.

On slide (handwritten): "Bacon." Also, blind embossed stamp: "Frances B. Johnston, New York."

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 58.

 

Subjects:

Gardens--New York (State)--Westbury (Nassau County)--1920-1930.

Trees--New York (State)--Westbury (Nassau County)--1920-1930.

Flowers--New York (State)--Westbury (Nassau County)--1920-1930.

Walkways--New York (State)--Westbury (Nassau County)--1920-1930.

 

Format: Lantern slides--Hand-colored--1920-1930.

 

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.16282

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X100- 73

 

 

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