
Early Garden Photography: Glass Lantern Slides

Presenter: Joyce Connolly, Smithsonian Gardens
Garden photography hasn’t always been as easy as point-and-shoot on your cell phone. Learn about hand-tinted glass lantern slides and how they were used a century ago to document gardens and tell their stories from Joyce Connolly of the Archives of American Gardens.
Resources
- Archives of American Gardens (AAG)
- Smithsonian’s Collections Search Center (CSC)
- AAG’s Mystery Gardens
- Frances Benjamin Johnston’s lantern slides at the Library of Congress
- Magic Lantern Society
Bibliography
- The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners, Private Estates, 1890-1940 by Mac Griswold and Eleanor Weller. Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
- Newport in Flower: A history of Newport’s Horticultural Heritage (2nd edition) by Harriet Jackson Phelps. Preservation Society of Newport County, Newport, Rhode Island, 2010.
- Gardens for a Beautiful America, 1895-1935: Photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston by Sam Waters. Acanthus Press, 2012.