page_title: SVF Foundation
section_title: History and facilities
hierarchical_section_title: SVF Foundation / History and facilities
caption_attribution_description: English: Title ["Surprise Valley Farm," Arthur Curtiss James property, Beacon Hill Road, Newport, Rhode Island. Farmer cottages] Contributor Names Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer Created / Published [1917] Subject Headings - Gardens--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920 - Houses--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920 - Flowers--Rhode Island--Newport--1910-1920 Format Headings Lantern slides--Hand-colored--1910-1920. Notes - Site History. House Architecture: Grosvenor Atterbury, 1914-1916. Today: Buildings survive as part of the SVF Foundation founded to preserve endangered breeds of livestock. - On slide: Blue star sticker. - Title, date, and subject information provided by Sam Watters, 2011. - Forms part of: Garden and historic house lecture series in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). - Published in Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York: Acanthus Press, 2012. Plate 12. - Formerly in Box 26. Medium 1 photograph&#160;: glass lantern slide, hand-colored&#160;; 3.25 x 4 in. Call Number/Physical Location LC-J717-X100- 37 [P&amp;P] Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Digital Id ppmsca 16246 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.16246 Library of Congress Control Number 2007685937 Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ppmsca-16246 (digital file from original item) Rights Advisory No known restrictions on publication. Online Format image Description 1 photograph&#160;: glass lantern slide, hand-colored&#160;; 3.25 x 4 in. LCCN Permalink https://lccn.loc.gov/2007685937
context_page_description: The SVF Foundation is a 501 nonprofit organization that seeks to preserve rare breeds of livestock. It is the only private organization in the United States that preserves rare livestock by gathering and storing both semen and embryos of the animals in its collection, a technique called cryopreservation.
context_section_description: SVF, which stands for "Swiss Village Farm", is located in Newport, Rhode Island, and has facilities both for housing live herds and for cryopreservation on its 45 acres. Live animals are also available for sale to farmers and ranchers to increase the practical use of rare breeds in modern agriculture. It is not open to the public except for one day a year, as a strict biosecurity measure.
  SVF was founded by Dorrance Hill Hamilton, the billionaire heir to the Campbell Soup Company fortune and one of the wealthiest Americans according to Forbes. The Newport property on which it is housed was built by railroad magnate Arthur Curtiss James in the early 1900s and was purchased by Hamilton in 1998.
caption: Early twentieth century view of Surprise Valley Farm buildings, which now house facilities devoted to cryopreservation
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