["Claraben Court," Benjamin Stern house, Roslyn Harbor, New York. (LOC)

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

 

["Claraben Court," Benjamin Stern house, Roslyn Harbor, New York. View from drive]

 

[ca. 1914]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: Original house by Jacob Wray Mould, 1868, with changes by Benjamin Stern after purchasing the property in 1906. Landscape: Achille Duchêne for Benjamin Stern, from 1906. Other: Original house was called "Wenlo-on-the-Bay." Today: House, with significant alternations, survives; the garden has been subdivided.

On slide (handwritten): "S" and "Stern, Mrs. Benj." Also, red stroke mark 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).

 

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.16843

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X109- 38

 

 

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