Frances Benjamin Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress)

Administrative Information

Provenance

• Most are gift and purchase; Frances Benjamin Johnston and Johnston estate; 1905-1953.
• Some transferred from; LC Manuscript Division (Frances Benjamin Johnston Papers); 1982; (DLC/PP-1982:211).
• Some are a gift from Anne E. Peterson, 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:206).
• A few are copyright deposits; Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Processing History

This collection was described by Barbara Natanson, Kathleen Collins, and other Library staff between 1986 and 1987. Additional inventorying was done by Marilyn Ibach between 2012 and 2016. The lantern slides were identified and cataloged by Sam Watters, Charls Jenkins, and Helena Zinkham, 2007-2012. This finding aid contains unverified data from old container lists transcribed by Erin Ebert, Gillian Mahoney, Jacob Stickann, Maya Reid, Michelle An, Nicholas Pernot, and Tori Cox in 2020. Not all of the groups of material are described at the same level of detail. Finding aid encoded by Emma Esperon in 2021.

Additional materials that form the Frances Benjamin Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress) not included in this finding aid are listed below. For more information about service of these additional materials, search our Online Catalog by call number.

• PR 06 CN 306 Copy photos of works of religious art, Oberammergau, Passion Play, and possibly other sites in Europe
• PR 06 CN 389 Houses by architect Edward Buehler Delk in Kansas City, Missouri
• PR 06 CN 435 Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, facing left
• PR 06 CN 548 Portraits of G.B. Cooper, Edmund McDougal, George Warner, Dr. Horton Stone, Dr. Downs, Nellie Everest, Alex Beckers, Elizabeth Anderson Ellinger Hancock, Cora Stuart Wheeler, Charles Rohlfs and unidentified
• PR 06 CN 568 Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress) [unprocessed portion]
• PR 06 CN 899 Copy photographs of daguerreotypes in the Library of Congress Daguerreotype Collection
• PR 13 CN 1962:R11 Charles Follen McKim
• PR 13 CN 2011:206 Frances Benjamin Johnston materials from the collection of Anne E. Peterson

Transfers

The Prints and Photographs Division transferred textual records to the Manuscript Division where they can be identified as the Frances Benjamin Johnston papers, 1855-1956 (bulk 1890-1945). An inventory of this material is available in their finding aid. More information about the division can be found at the Manuscript Division Homepage and Contact Page.

Related Material

Additional materials with photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnston are described in our Online Catalog. A few of these collections include:

• Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. For more information, see the Collection Profile.
  • LOT 11833 (F): Alabama
  • LOT 11834 (F): Florida
  • LOT 11835 (F): Georgia
  • LOT 11836 (F): Louisiana
  • LOT 11837 (F): Maryland
  • LOT 11838 (F): Mississippi
  • LOT 11839 (F): North Carolina
  • LOT 11840 (F): South Carolina
  • LOT 11841 (F): Virginia
• Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture (PAEAA)
  • LOT 12553 (F): Washington, D.C., architecture
  • LOT 12554 (H): Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) architecture
• Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1981:201 Visual Materials from Benjamin Harrison papers
• Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 1991:016 William Lyme Wilson collection of photographs of Grover Cleveland
• Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2016:058 Photo of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, booklets on photography techniques related to Frances Benjamin Johnston's work

Related Material at Other Repositories

While the Library of Congress is the principal repository of the writings and photographs of Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), many other repositories hold portions of her work. A few of these repositories include:

• The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Photo Archives holds the Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection of approximately 1,276 photographic prints and 1,278 glass plate negatives.
• The Louisiana State Museum holds the Frances B. Johnston Photograph Collection.
• MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) holds 156 photographs including the Hampton Album.
• The New York Botanical Garden holds her garden books.
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's North Carolina Collection Photographic Archives, The Wilson Library holds about 2,300 photos in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, 1935-1938 (Collection Number: P0006).
• The University of Virginia, Library, Digital Collections holds the Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection of approximately 948 photographs made between 1929 and 1935.

Preferred Citation

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [Reproduction number e.g., LC-USZ62-123456].

Online Content

To see already digitized images from this collection, search our Online Catalog by call number or descriptive words.

Alternate Formats

Negatives and transparencies are generally not served to researchers and are stored offsite. Generally a print of each image is available in the collection. The lantern slides (call number: LC-J717) have been comprehensively digitized and can be searched by call number or descriptive words in our Online Catalog. Due to safety regulations, nitrate negatives cannot be served to the public.

*Interpositive transparencies (code T) and duplicate negatives (code 01 or T01) were largely created as preservation copies by the Library of Congress Duplication Services Division and/or a Library contract with Chicago Albumen Works.