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Materials created by Frances Benjamin Johnston
Fredericksburg, Falmouth and vic., VA, 1925-1929?
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2501 (H)
Extent: 247 photographic prints (incomplete set).
Summary: A series of photographic studies of the architecture of the region dating from colonial times to circa 1830, made for Mrs. Daniel B. Devore of Chatham as an historical record and to preserve something of the atmosphere of an old Virginia town. Residences, interiors, details, gardens, warehouses, cottages, ruins, street corners.
Washington, D.C., school survey, 1899?
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2749 (G) (OSE)
Extent: 361 photoprints : cyanotype ; 19 x 24 cm. or smaller.
Extent: 4 published booklets.
Extent: 1 oversized map.
Summary: Includes high schools, junior high schools, elementary, and vocational schools in Washington, D.C. School activities including chemistry, cooking, drawing, physical education classes; excursions to museums, zoo, Library of Congress.
Arranged by photographer's numbers, 1-416B.
Pinkey's blue book, or, The indigo agonies of a photographic amateur, November 2, 1888-December 6, 1888
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2763 (H)
Extent: 1 album (44 photoprints) ; 21 x 27 cm.
Note: Use digital images. Original served only by appointment because material requires special handling. For more information, see: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.info.apptonly
Summary: Portraits of Arts Students' League members, including Miss Perrie in "empire costume"; government officials in their offices, including Dr. John Scott of Pension Office; two photos of Johnston ("Pinkey"), one with camera. Women office workers in Internal Revenue Service. Buildings in Washington, including Riggs Bank and Dept. of Justice; interiors and exteriors of residences; interior of Art Students' League decorated for reception. Gypsy encampment, showing wagons on Glenwood Road (probably Bethesda, Md.). One photo of bronze statuette.
Commissioned photographs of objects and documents, 1895-1930
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2903 (H) (G)
Extent: 192 photographic prints : 119 gelatin silver, 72 cyanotype, 1 albumen ; 31 x 25 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes series of sculptures of U.S. senators by sculptor Barksdale Rogers, exhibited in 1930. Decorative arts, including glass, china, needlework, furniture, religious articles, and Carmichael silver. Reproductions of paintings, drawings, graphics, and photos, including Angela Kauffmann's drawings for furniture decoration, "Hornblower" portraits and documents, and McClure Magazine commission of battleships and Civil War documents and photos.
Arranged by commission or subject.
Reformed Church assembly, ca. 1890
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2905 (F)
Extent: 7 photoprints : 5 cyanotype, 2 gelatin silver ; 18 x 26 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Group portraits in outdoor locations; one on shipboard posed with screens bearing heraldic symbols. Men distributing drink to men seated in church pews.
Salt mines, ca. 1893
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2906 (F)
Extent: 31 photoprints : 14 gelatin silver, 9 cyanotype, 8 albumen ; 20 x 25 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Workers performing salt mining and processing activities, including extracting and cleaning evaporating tanks, packing in sacks, and loading wagons, railroad cars, and canal boats for transport.
National Phonograph Co., New York, New York, 1905?
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2907 (F)
Extent: 4 photoprints : 3 cyanotype, 1 albumen ; 25 x 20 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Men reading from note pads and speaking into dictaphones.
New York Yacht Race in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, 1905
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2908 (F)
Extent: 66 photoprints : 38 gelatin silver, 28 cyanotype ; 30 x 24 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Men readying boats; men and women aboard boats and watching from shore; portrait of child and of Com. Chas. Pryer of the sloop "Eurybia." Views of boats in bay and of Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club.
National Training School for Boys, Washington, D.C., ca. 1908
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2909 (F)
Extent: 12 photoprints : cyanotype ; 13 x 18 cm.
Summary: Includes dormitories, workshop, classroom. Boys playing baseball. Group portrait of staff.
Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, D.C., 1904-1908
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2910 (F)
Extent: 43 photographic prints : 27 gelatin silver, 9 cyanotype, 7 platinum ; 24 x 30 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Ceremonies at cornerstone laying and dedication of Memorial Continental Hall. Interiors showing decorations. DAR convention activities, including women making speeches, male dignitaries attending.
Shoe factories in Lynn, Massachusetts, 1895
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2913 (F)
Extent: 33 photoprints : 27 cyanotype, 6 albumen ; 25 x 20 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes female workers entering and leaving factories and cutting, sewing, and pasting shoes. Canal and streets in Lynn; children playing in street; woman hanging laundry.
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1891-1893
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2959 (H)
Extent: 74 photographic prints : 71 gelatin silver, 3 albumen ; 28 x 36 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes Exposition site under construction and after completion, showing buildings, monuments, and grounds--especially canals. Asian participants, Javanese musicians, cockfight. Staff, exhibits, and visitors, including men working in drafting room, art exhibit, midway, animals, boys posed for photo. Larger format views overlooking grounds and showing crowds.
Arranged by topic.
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Alabama, ca. 1902-1906
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2962 (G) (H)
Extent: 648 photoprints : 595 gelatin silver, 52 cyanotype, 1 albumen ; 41 x 51 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes portraits of Booker T. Washington and his wife, William H. Taft, Andrew Carnegie, members of Tuskegee faculty council; group portraits of faculty and students--one is pieced together to form wide view and possibly also employs photomontage techniques. Students engaged in classroom and extracurricular activities; 25th anniversary ceremonies; buildings under construction. Activities at area institutions founded by Tuskegee alumni, including Snow Hill Institute, Mount Meigs Institute, Annie Davis' school. Graphs and charts of statistics relating to blacks. Pamphlet featuring Johnston photos: The successful training of the negro / by Booker T. Washington. New York : Doubleday, Page, & Co., c1903.
Indoor Classes, Activities, & Displays
Call No.: LOT 2962-1 (G) (H)
Outdoor Classes & Activities
Call No.: LOT 2962-2 (G)
Buildings
Call No.: LOT 2962-3 (G)
Portraits
Call No.: LOT 2962-4 (G) (H)
Branch & Vicinity Schools
Call No.: LOT 2962-5 (G)
Graphs & Pamphlet
Call No.: LOT 2962-6 (G)
Cambridge-Harvard boat race in England, 1906
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2965 (F)
Extent: 60 photoprints : 34 cyanotype, 26 gelatin silver ; 13 x 18 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Eight-oared shell boat race between Harvard and Cambridge universities. Includes teams posed for portraits, launching boats, on river; spectators on shore; police controlling crowds; men in living quarters and garden. (Race was held Sept. 6, 1906, on the Thames, starting at Putney, in London, England.)
World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri, 1904
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2966 (G)
Extent: 165 photoprints : 78 gelatin silver, 87 cyanotype ; 25 x 30 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes grounds, buildings, waterways with gondolas. Opening ceremonies with spectators and portraits of officials; procession. Exhibits, including views of exhibit hall and machinery, Siam display, Africans and Asians in native costume engaged in activities outside huts such as a mock fight, shooting with bows and arrows, weaving, and dancing; North American Indians.
Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2967 (G)
Extent: 279 photoprints : 167 gelatin silver, 112 cyanotype ; 25 x 30 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes grounds with buildings, sculpture, and fountains; midway parade; officials. President McKinley speaking and touring with his entourage. West Point cadets setting up and in camp, viewing exhibits, on parade, posed for portraits; U.S. Marines and U.S. Signal Corps giving demonstrations. Exhibits and exhibitors, including North American Indians, Egyptians, Africans, and Hawaiians.
Coal mines in Pennsylvania, 1891
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2968 (F)
Extent: 11 photoprints : 9 cyanotype, 1 albumen, 1 gelatin silver ; 19 x 25 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Miners, including young boys, at work and eating. Interiors and exteriors of mine and living quarters. View of Shenandoah City.
Bagchee, Annoda, Prosad (and others), artists
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 2980 (F)
Extent: 10 proofs from photographs.
Note: From an unidentified scientific publication of the late 19th century, published by the Gov't school of art, Calcutta.
Summary: Blueprint proofs reproducing pictures of serpents. With scientific terminology.
New Theater, New York, N.Y., ca. 1909-ca. 1910
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Related Name: New Century Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.), copyright holder.
Call No.: LOT 3611 (H)
Extent: 7 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 36 x 29 cm. or smaller.
Note: Johnston took the photos on commission for John M. Carrère; this was probably Johnston's first commission for architectural photography.
Note: Title devised. Penned captions on most photos.
Summary: Exterior and interior of theater (also known as Century Theater), including friezes, murals, decorated arches, ceiling, columns, foyer.
Portrait proofs, some badly faded, of people prominent in politics, art, science, business, society, etc.
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 4070 (G)
Extent: ca. 100 photographic prints
Summary: A supplementary collection tipped in folders.
Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, ca. 1891-ca. 1893
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