["Près Choisis," Albert Herter house, Georgica Pond, East Hampton, New York. (LOC)

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

 

["Près Choisis," Albert Herter house, Georgica Pond, East Hampton, New York. Blue and white garden terrace]

 

[1913 fall]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: Grovesnor Atterbury, 1898-1899. Landscape: Adele McGinnis (Mrs. Albert) and Albert Herter from 1898. Other: The house was on 75 acres given to the Herters as a marriage present by Albert Herter's mother Mary Herter. Today: House, but not garden, extant.

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. Figure 29c.

 

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.16870

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X109- 65

 

 

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