The gardens of '
Red Maples', the
Alfred William Hoyt estate designed by
Hiss & Weekes c. 1908 in
Southampton with landscaping by
Ferruccio Vitale. Click
HERE and
HERE for more on '
Red Maples'. These photos were taken in 1915 by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
Photos from the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
3 comments:
The resolution is quite good for 1915.
HPHS---the resolution is almost always stellar on glass negatives, in any era.
I've mentioned this before, but there are additional b&w garden pictures here, following page 69:
http://books.google.com/books?id=cihQXDNHCZQC&q=Red+Maples#v=snippet&q=Red%20Maples&f=false\
The text is also worth reading.
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