["The Elms," Edward Julius Berwind, 367 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island. (LOC)

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

 

["The Elms," Edward Julius Berwind, 367 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island. Boxwood parterre]

 

[1914 summer]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: Horace Trumbaurer, 1899-1901, 1911. Landscape: Horace Trumbauer, 1907-1914. Gardener: Bruce Butterton. Today: Open to the public as a house and garden museum by the Preservation Society of Newport County.

On slide (handwritten): "B," "Berwind, E.J., Newport," and Johnston no. "2761." Also, red stroke mark, blue penciled X, and gold star sticker.

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 1.

 

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.16293

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X108- 79

 

 

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