["The Pavilion," Stephen Hyatt Pelham Pell house, Fort Ticonderoga, New York. (LOC)

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

 

["The Pavilion," Stephen Hyatt Pelham Pell house, Fort Ticonderoga, New York. Pathway to teahouse in walled garden]

 

[1927 Fall]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. Landscape: Walls and tea house designed by Alfred Charles Bossom, 1910; Marion Cruger Coffin, 1920-1926, flower garden on the site of Le Jardin du Roi. Associated Name: Sarah Thompson (Mrs. Stephen H.P.) Pell. Today: Overall form and structures survive.

Photograph shows walled flower garden with sign: "The King's Garden. This garden was started in 1757 by Captain de Pontieroy of the French Army, Chief of Engineers to the Marquis de Montcalm and named Le Jardin du Roi."

On slide (printed): "Edward van Altena" and "71-79 W. 45th St., N.Y.C." (slide manufacturer).

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 42.

 

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.16731

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X108- 4

 

 

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