Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
[Demonstration garden, Bryant Park, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, New York, New York. Visitors studying gardening notices]
[1918 August]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. Today: Bryant Park extant.
Slide for lecturing on city and suburban gardens.
Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011.
Photo shows Bryant Park with New York Public Library; two boys, one on roller skates, and a man reading the notices. Garden is a project by the National War Garden Commission, 1918.
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. Frontispiece plate for section "Gardens for City and Suburb."
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
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Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
["Jones Wood" townhouses, East 65th and East 66th Streets between Lexington and Third Avenues, New York, New York. View from garden to St. Vincent Ferrer church]
[1921]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. Twelve townhouses designed by John B. Snook, 1868, and remodeled by Edward Shepard Hewitt and William Emerson, 1919. Landscape: Edward Shepard Hewitt and William Emerson. Other: Originally known as "Gerry Gardens." Today:Extant.
Slide for lecturing on city and suburban gardens.
On slide: Blue star sticker and red seal sticker.
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.16147
Call Number: LC-J717-X98- 72
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Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
[Laura Stafford Stewart house, 205 West 13th Street, New York, New York. Terrace]
[1922]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. Landscape: Laura Stafford Stewart. Other: Laura Stafford Stewart was the wife of John Wood Stewart, deceased June, 1922. Photographs of this garden were entered in the 1922 City Gardens Club of New York photograph exhibtion at the New York Camera Club.
Slide for lecturing on city and suburban gardens.
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.16142
Call Number: LC-J717-X98- 68
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Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
[Laura Stafford Stewart house, 205 West 13th Street, New York, New York. Pergola seat]
[1922]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. Landscape: Laura Stafford Stewart. Other: Laura Stafford Stewart was the wife of John Wood Stewart, deceased June, 1922. Photographs of this garden were entered in the 1922 City Gardens Club of New York photograph exhibtion at the New York Camera Club.
Slide for lecturing on city and suburban gardens.
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.16141
Call Number: LC-J717-X98- 67
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Johnston, Frances Benjamin,, 1864-1952,, photographer.
["Flagstones," Charles Clinton Marshall house, 117 East 55th Street, New York, New York. Tea house/sleeping porch]
[between 1921 and 1922]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. Landscape: Abby Story (Mrs. Charles Clinton) Marshall. Other: This garden was comprised of two lots at 117 and 119 West 55th Street, owned by Charles Clinton Marshall who lived at 117. Abby Story Marshall won "Before and After" Special Medal for the garden she developed from three back yards at The City Gardens Club of New York City exhibition, New York Camera Club, 1922. Today: House and garden not extant.
Slide for lecturing on city and suburban gardens."
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.16135
Call Number: LC-J717-X98- 61
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