["Gray Gardens," Robert Carmer Hill house, Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton, New York. (LOC)

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

 

["Gray Gardens," Robert Carmer Hill house, Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton, New York. Northeast gate to garden]

 

[ca. 1914]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: Joseph Greenleaf Thorp, 1897. Landscape: Anna Gilman (Mrs. Robert C.) Hill. Other: Robert C. Hill acquired the house and four acres and half in 1913; Edith Bouvier Beale owned this house, now known as "Grey Gardens, from the 1920s. Today: House extant and the garden restored.

On slide (handwritten): "H" and "Hill, Mrs. Robt. C."

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).

 

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.16859

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X109- 54

 

 

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