Charles Templeton Crocker estate, Hillsborough, near San Mateo, Calif. – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Charles Templeton Crocker estate, Hillsborough, near San Mateo, Calif., preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Charles Templeton Crocker estate, Hillsborough, near San Mateo, Calif.
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Hillsborough, on the San Francisco Peninsula, is the setting for this 1917 photograph of the Charles Templeton Crocker estate, and the caption cards tag it under gardens and fountains. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer who documented American gardens and country houses in the early twentieth century, made the picture. The Crocker family's wealth came from the railroad fortune of Charles Crocker, one of the Central Pacific's founders. Estates like this one, set in landscaped grounds south of the city, show how Bay Area fortunes were turned into formal gardens during the years before the First World War.
| Created / published | 1917 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Geogr.; Gardens; Fountains; Ph. ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,249 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157576 |
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