["The Orchard," James Lawrence Breese house, 151 Hill Street, Southampton, New York. (LOC)

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

 

["The Orchard," James Lawrence Breese house, 151 Hill Street, Southampton, New York. Herms along pathway]

 

[1912]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: McKim, Mead & White, 1898-1907. Landscape: McKim, Mead & White, 1898-1907. For 1906 plan of this garden, see slide LC-J717-X103-3, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16445. Today: House, converted to Whitefield condominiums, is on the National Register of Historic Places.

On slide (handwritten): "B" and "Breese." Also, blue penciled X. And, Johnston no. "1360."

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 78.

 

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.16812

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X109- 7

 

 

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