Killenworth 1939 Volume I
date: label: date made
content: 1939
notes: label: Description
content: This volume of panoramas of the estate of Mrs. George D. Pratt, Glen Cove, Long Island, N. Y. contains 31 gelatin silver black and white photos assembled accordion style, including 13 panoramas of two photos each. The personalized collection includes a separate cover in a marbleized slipcover.
label: Description
content: According to Dr. A. J. Olmsted, honorary curator of the photographic collection in the 1920's, "The Volume of Panoramas [is] an example of very fine photography."
label: Description
content: There is a photographers blind stamp on the bottom right of each photo for Beidler - Viken, Manhasset, N.Y. The firm principals, D. C. Beidler and A. J. Viken, operated on Long Island, N. Y. and were responsible for several patents pertaining to photography, including an improved tripod and a twin lens child portrait camera which is also in the collection (at Catalogue number 4332).
label: Description
content: The subject is Killenworth, built by George DuPont Pratt in 1913. The structure is actually the second on the site with the same name. The Olmstead Brothers originally landscaped the site. Presently (2012) the site is the country home to the Russian Delegates to the United Nations.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Manhasset
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, Long Island
topic: label: Subject
content: Landscape
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.004383
label: accession number
content: 171583
label: catalog number
content: 4383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Album
label: Object Name
content: album
label: Other Terms
content: Album; Photograph
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 26.9 cm x 21.2 cm x 2.9 cm; 10 19/32 in x 8 11/32 in x 1 5/32 in