Castaña [Photographs by Ida Pritchett and Clara Sipprell of the estate of the late Mr. & Mrs. Alba B. Johnson]

Pritchett, Ida W., 1891-1965
Sipprell, Clara E. (Clara Estelle), 1885-1975
Johnson, Alba B. (Alba Boardman), 1858-1935 -- Homes and haunts
Gardens -- Pennsylvania -- Rosemont
Photography of gardens
Castaña (Rosemont, Pa.)
Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts
Gilbert, Walter, 1871-1946. Neptune and horses
Herms
Pan (Sculpture)
Bartholomew, Edward Sheffield,1822-1858. Eve repentant
Adams, Alexander Mackie, 1879-1967
Cope, John S., 1856-1915

This collection consists of 25 photographs by noted photographers Ida W. Pritchett and Clara E. Sipprell of the gardens and grounds of the Alba B. Johnson estate, Castaña in Rosemont, Pennsylvania.

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This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. In addition, the Philadelphia Garden Photographs, 1900-1940 project is supported through a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's Historical Archives and Records Care Grant, a program funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

1. Untitled [Garden, pool, classical sculpture, pergola] (15 x 20.5 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. -- 2. Untitled [Garden, pool, classical sculpture, pergola] (15 x 20.5 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Sculpture cast in 1911 by Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts (Sculptor: Walter Gilbert) -- 3. Untitled [Garden, pond] (15.5 x 20 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. -- 4. Untitled [Garden, pool, classical sculpture, pergola] (14.5 x 19.5 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 2. -- 5. Untitled [Garden, balustrade, ornamental pool] (20 x 15 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 3. -- 6. Untitled [View from the tea house to bowling green and lower garden, two large ornamental urns] (20 x 15 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 4. -- 7. Untitled [Garden room with arborvitae walls, lawn, stone planters, classical sculpture] (15 x 20 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 6. -- 8. Untitled [Grass path, border of shrubs and trees, gate] (20 x 15 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 7. -- 9 .Untitled [Garden, pool, Neptune with three hippocamps] (15 x 20 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Sculpture cast in 1911 by Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts (Sculptor: Walter Gilbert) Verso: [No.] 8. -- 10. Untitled [Lower Garden, pool, classical sculpture in niche with rounded arch] (15 x 20 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 9. -- 11. Untitled [Garden, stone pool with classical sculpture in foreground, stone steps, classical sculpture in background] (14 x 19.5 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 10. -- 12. Untitled [Upper Garden, pool] (20 x 15 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 12. -- 13. Untitled [Garden, pool, Neptune with three hippocamps] (15 x 20 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Sculpture cast in 1911 by Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts (Sculptor: Walter Gilbert) Verso: [No.] 13. -- 14. Untitled [Herm (possibly depicting Pan) under pergola] (20 x 15 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 14. -- 15. Untitled [View up stone steps, garden urns] (20 x 15 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 15. -- 16. Untitled [Grass path, border of shrubs and trees] (15 x 20 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 16. -- 17. Untitled [Garden, stone path, ornamental beds, stone steps to pergola] (20 x 15 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 18. -- 18. Untitled [Garden, room with arborvitae walls, marble sculpture titled "Eve Repentant" sculpted in 1856 by Edward S. Bartholomew] (14.5 x 20 cm., mounted on board 47 x 33 cm.) Signed on mount: Ida W. Pritchett. Verso: [No.] 19. -- 20. Untitled [Stone path through woods] (24 x 19 cm., mounted on paper 28.5 x 19 cm.) Signed on mount: Clara E. Sipprell. -- 21 . Untitled [Tree, structure, pool] (24 x 19 cm., mounted on paper 29 x 22 cm.) Signed on mount: Clara E. Sipprell. -- 22. Untitled [Pool] (18.5 x 23.5 cm., mounted on paper 26 x 27 cm.) Signed on mount: Clara E. Sipprell. -- 23. Untitled [Garden, room with arborvitae walls, planters, marble sculpture titled "Eve Repentant" sculpted in 1856 by Edward D. Bartholomew] (19 x 24 cm., mounted on paper 27 x 27 cm.) Signed on mount: Clara E. Sipprell. -- 24. Untitled [View up stone steps, balustrade, garden urns, rhododendron] (24 x 19 cm., mounted on paper 29 x 22 cm.) Signed on mount: Clara E. Sipprell. -- 25. Untitled [Stone path through woods] (24 x 19 cm., mounted on paper 29 x 22 cm.) Signed on mount: Clara E. Sipprell.