["Chelmsford," Elon Huntington Hooker house, Greenwich, Connecticut. Brook garden]
[ca. 1914]
1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
Notes:
Site History. House Architecture: McKim, Mead & White, expansion of existing house, 1909-1911. Landscape: Warren Henry Manning 1909-14. Associated Name: Blanche Ferry (Mrs. Elon H.) Hooker. Today: House, but not garden extant.
On slide (handwritten): "H" and "Hooker, E.H." Also, yellow-gold star sticker.
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 40.
Subjects:
Gardens--Connecticut--Greenwich--1910-1920.
Streams--Connecticut--Greenwich--1910-1920.
Waterfalls--Connecticut--Greenwich--1910-1920.
Forests--Connecticut--Greenwich--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, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16280