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ArticleLantern Slides for Garden and Historic House Lectures The photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was a dedicated advocate of the garden beautiful movement in the early 1900s. Guided by her formal training as a fine artist, she had 1,134 of her black-and-white photographs reproduced as lantern slides. These views on glass, most hand-tinted, illustrated Johnston's popular lectures, which she delivered to garden club members, museum audiences, and horticultural societies from 1915 through...
- Date: 1850
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Lower garden, steps from exedra] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, b&w ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Roses along pathway] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Yellow garden in upper garden] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Upper garden, green terrace in the yellow garden] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, b&w ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Lower garden, steps from marble seat] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Lower garden, walkway to exedra] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Lower garden, pool house] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Upper garden, gates from rose garden to blue garden] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, b&w ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Wall relief along pathway] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Lower garden, view to Santa Ynez Mountains] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Lower garden, view to swimming pool] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Lower garden, exedra at terminus of walkway] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing["Arcady," George Owen Knapp house, Sycamore Canyon Road, Montecito, California. Lower garden, indoor swimming pool at pool house] 1 photograph : glass lantern slide, hand-colored ; 3.25 x 4 in.
- Contributor: Johnston, Frances Benjamin
- Date: 1917-01-01