["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. Hydrangea]
[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."
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.16840
Call Number: LC-J717-X109- 35
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