["Bartow Mansion," International Garden Club, 895 Shore Bay Road, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, New York. (LOC)

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

 

["Bartow Mansion," International Garden Club, 895 Shore Bay Road, Pelham Bay Park, Bronx, New York. Terrace fountain]

 

[1915 fall]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: 1842 house renovated by Delano & Aldrich for the International Garden Club, 1914. Landscape: Delano & Aldrich, 1914. Associated Name: Zelia Krumbhaar (Mrs. Charles F.) Hoffman, Jr. Other: The International Garden Club, founded in 1914 by Zelia (Mrs. Charles F.) Hoffman, Jr., leased and renovated the Bartow Mansion as its headquarters. Today: House now the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum with the terrace garden restored.

On slide (handwritten): "B," "Bartow, Pelham Bay Park," and Johnston no. "3915." Also, the penciled word "Sample." And, blue penciled X.

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 49.

 

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.16838

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X109- 33

 

 

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