["Surprise Valley Farm," Arthur Curtiss James property, Beacon Hill Road, Newport, Rhode Island. (LOC)

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

 

["Surprise Valley Farm," Arthur Curtiss James property, Beacon Hill Road, Newport, Rhode Island. Farmer cottages]

 

[1917]

 

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

 

Notes:

Site History. House Architecture: Grosvenor Atterbury, 1914-1916. Today: Buildings survive as part of the SVF Foundation founded to preserve endangered breeds of livestock.

On slide: Blue star 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).

Published in Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York: Acanthus Press, 2012. Plate 12.

 

Subjects:

Gardens--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920.

Houses--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920.

Flowers--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920.

 

Format: Lantern slides--Hand-colored--1910-1920.

 

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.16246

 

Call Number: LC-J717-X100- 37

 

 

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