Title

Surprise Valley Farm, Arthur Curtiss James property, Beacon Hill Road, Newport, Rhode Island, 1917 Creator: Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Caption

Surprise Valley Farm, Arthur Curtiss James property, Beacon Hill Road, Newport, Rhode Island, 1917. Two murals of chickens and one of a pig, probably by Joseph Lindon Smith. Estate designed in 1914 by Grosvenor Atterbury for railroad magnate Arthur Curtiss James. The architecture was inspired by a village in the Italian region of Switzerland.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM22B06_419

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NA

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License type

Rights managed

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28,9Mb (5,0Mb) / 9,7in x 11,5in / 2923 x 3453 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors animal countryside building buildings library house houses architecture bird birds country farm pig chicken chickens rustic location century estate concept swine hog B&W Rhode Island Newport Library of Congress United States of America black & white black and white B W 1910s 20th century rural American America USA rural life TGN outside photograph united states James Atterbury Grosvenor Regionalism Congressional Library Heritage Art Frances Benjamin Johnston Johnston Frances Benjamin Frances Johnston Frances B. Johnston FB Johnston Photographic prints 1910-1920. gmgpc Neacon Hill Surprise Valley Farm Arthur Curtiss James Arthur Curtiss Grosvenor Atterbury Joseph Lindon Smith Smith Joseph Lindon