["Brookside," William Hall Walker house, Brookside Road, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. (LOC)

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

 

["Brookside," William Hall Walker house, Brookside Road, Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Boat landing]

 

[ca. 1916]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House architecture: Carrère & Hastings, 1910 with 1912 alterations and additions for William Hall Walker. Boat landing architect: Walter Bradnee Kirby. Landscape: Garden casino and garden by Ferruccio Vitale, 1912-1918. Associated Name: Carrie Jones (Mrs. William H.) Walker. Today: House and remaining grounds now Eisner camp for children sponsored by the Reform Movement in Judaism.

On slide (handwritten):"W" and "Walker." Also, blue penciled X.

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).

Published in Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York: Acanthus Press, 2012. Plate 34.

 

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.16780

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X108- 53

 

 

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