["Mariemont," Thomas Josephus Emery house, Honeyman Hill, Middletown, Rhode Island. (LOC)

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

 

["Mariemont," Thomas Josephus Emery house, Honeyman Hill, Middletown, Rhode Island. View from summer house]

 

[1914 summer]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: Richard Morris Hunt, designed 1871, altered by Thomas J. Emery circa 1901. Landscape: 19 acres by John Charles Olmsted, Henry Vincent Hubbard, James Frederick Dawson, Olmsted Brothers, 1903-1908. Associated Name: Mary Hopkins (Mrs. Thomas J.) Emery. Gardeners: Alexander Anderson and Andrew L. Dorwood. Today: House extant but gardens subdivided.

On slide (handwritten): "E" and "Emery, Mrs. Thomas J., Newport, R.I."

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--Middletown--1910-1920.

Gardens--Rhode Island--Middletown--1910-1920.

Garden structures--Rhode Island--Middletown--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.16227

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X100- 18

 

 

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