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Image Title: Gardener Watering Cold Frame Plants, Posed To Illustrate Rudyard Kipling's Poem The Glory Of The Garden, 1917

Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer

Date: 1917, printed later

Notes: Frances Benjamin Johnston posed gardeners performing gardening jobs to illustrate the popular poem, The Glory of the Garden, by Rudyard Kipling. She submitted the photographs to the magazine Country Life in America, which did not publish the series. Today it is not known how many photos the series had, but the Library has 5 scenes, including prints with publication crop marks. (Source: Sam Watters, Gardens for a Beautiful America (2012), p. 28.)

Subjects: Flowers--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920
Gardeners--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920
Gardening--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920
Kipling, Rudyard,--1865-1936.--Glory of the garden
Men--Employment--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920

Original Media: Photograph

Collections: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection » more info...

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