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Materials created by Frances Benjamin Johnston (continued)
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
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 5020 (G)
Extent: 119 photoprints : 43 cyanotype, 42 albumen, 34 gelatin silver ; 35 x 28 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes tourist party being led through cave by black guide; cave entrance, iron gate, narrow passageways, rock formations--some with graffiti on them. Cottages, including view of veranda, in vicinity of cave.
Wooden box industry, ca. 1910
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 7512 (F)
Extent: 12 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 24 x 30 cm.
Summary: Mrs. Graham talking with workers and posed beside lumber; men preparing to cut log; women painting, assembling, stitching, and labelling what are probably cigar boxes. Conjectured to have been taken in the U.S.
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, N.Y., c1911
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 8859 (G)
Extent: 6 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 23 x 29 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Consecration of choir and two chapels at Easter. Includes choir and congregation standing during service, photographed from above.
United States mint in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and United States Bureau of Engraving in Washington, D.C., 1889-1890
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 8861 (G)
Extent: 61 photoprints : 31 gelatin silver, 30 cyanotype ; 25 x 30 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Buildings and interiors. Employees, including blacks and women, eating in dining facilities and performing tasks such as sorting sacks and operating presses; portraits of officials in offices. Machinery and equipment, including scales, assay equipment, presses, ovens.
People and activities aboard the U.S.S. Olympia, 1899
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 8868 (G)
Extent: 241 photoprints : 151 gelatin silver, 88 cyanotype, 2 albumen ; 28 x 34 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes sailors at work and recreation, with pets, with peddlers, eating, washing clothes, and being photographed. Boat drill; officer inspecting small arms. Individual and group portraits, including Admiral Dewey, officers, Asian cooks, female passengers. Ship at anchor near Naples, Italy; ship interiors.
President McKinley's inauguration and administration, 1896-1900
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 9214 (H)
Extent: 43 photoprints : 31 gelatin silver, 12 cyanotype ; 40 x 48 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes McKinley taking oath of office; Washington, D.C., streets; Pension Building interior decorated for inauguration. Portraits of McKinley with his Cabinet and with first and second Philippine commissions; signing of peace protocol and ratification of treaty with Spain.
Opening of the 60th U.S. Congress, 1907
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 9791 (H)
Extent: 27 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 36 x 43 cm. or smaller.
Summary: House chamber during swearing in of Speaker Cannon; enlargements showing small groups of Congressmen reading or conferring at their desks. One photo includes in the distance a young Charles Lindbergh with his father.
United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1902
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 9792 (F)
Extent: 84 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 23 x 30 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Cadets posed for portraits and engaged in activities, including dress parade, presidential review, artillery drill, calisthenics, sports, tent pitching; cadets with female visitors; buildings; President Theodore Roosevelt at commencement; baseball game.
United States Army artillery practice, 1905
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 9794 (F)
Extent: 10 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 12 x 14 cm.
Summary: Explosions in water (captions indicate submarine tests at various ranges). Harbor and buildings at "Hendersons Point, P.N.Y." (probably Henderson Harbor, N.Y.). Soldiers covering their ears while firing artillery.
U.S. gun shops, 1903
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 9795 (G)
Extent: 98 photoprints : 54 cyanotype, 44 gelatin silver ; 19 x 24 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Interiors of gun factory at Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., showing men working with machinery, packing ammunition in boxes, and working at desks. Grounds of plant with piles of manufacturing materials. Firing of guns. Close-ups of metal castings, with annotation "Prof. Munroe's experiments."
Artistic photographs, 1900-1915
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 9799 (H)
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