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Materials created by Frances Benjamin Johnston (continued)
Frances Benjamin Johnston's photographic studio, Washington, D.C., ca. 1890-ca. 1913
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11738 (G) (H)
Extent: 154 photoprints : 87 cyanotype, 67 gelatin silver ; 41 x 51 cm. or smaller. 1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 29 x 20 cm. and 1 photomechanical print ; 24 x 20 cm.
Summary: Includes interiors of studio located at 1332 V St. N.W., showing furnishings, art objects, photographic equipment, architectural details, and Johnston with friends. Garden.
Frances Benjamin Johnston's trip to the western United States, 1903
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11739 (G)
Extent: 301 photoprints : 257 gelatin silver, 44 cyanotype ; 23 x 28 cm. or smaller.
Summary: State fair in Saint Paul, Minn., including parents and children, booths, rides, and health exhibit. Locomotive; steamboat with people standing on landing; group attending unidentified ceremony; black women posed for portrait; church in Saint Paul. Horse farm, arches in Palo Alto, Calif.--probably on Stanford University campus. Landscapes and train at Mt. Tamalpais, Calif.; sea lions on beach, dwellings, and store windows in Calif. San Francisco Chinatown. Boats on Columbia River, Washington. Yellowstone National Park landscapes, including geysers, rivers, canyons, frost-covered trees; Park tour showing teamsters, wagons, stagecoaches, camping party, tourists--including Johnston--and guides.
Arranged by site.
Family trip to Hamilton, Bermuda, ca. 1915
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11742 (F)
Extent: 27 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 9 x 12 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes group portraits with Frances A. Johnston, Sarah Hall Johnston, and Cornelia Hagan. Buildings, fountain, streets, waterfront, ship in harbor. Groups of girls dressed in white, reading books (possibly a school).
Frances Benjamin Johnston's photograph exhibition materials, ca. 1895-1906
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11743 (H)
Extent: 85 photoprints : 39 cyanotype, 45 gelatin silver (3 hand col.), 1 albumen ; 36 x 30 cm. or smaller and 3 photomechanical prints : photogravure ; 30 x 23 cm.
Summary: Female models posing in classical garb, one entitled "The Critic." Portraits of child, Anna May Bacon, including one reproduced as "Child of the Orient." Dutch children; Italian children with wife of U.S. Consul. Landscapes; street scenes in Italy, Ireland, and London, Eng. Exhibition hall hung with photos. (Images were included in exhibitions of work of artistic photographers. For works by other photographers, see LOT 3222).
Roycroft Shops, East Aurora, New York, 1900
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11744 (F)
Extent: 39 photoprints : cyanotype ; 19 x 25 cm. or smaller.
Note: Item call numbers are based on Johnston's numbing system written on the photographs. Item numbers range between no. 81430 and no. 81480, however no. 81467 to no. 81479 were not assigned.
Summary: Portraits, including individuals reading, artists with their work, a mother and children. Groups, including children, standing outside buildings. Interiors of workshops--one showing decorations and tools hanging from ceiling, another focusing on fireplace. Women operating presses and stitching books in bookbinding operation; men typesetting; men breaking up stones, mixing cement, and building stone structure. (Roycroft was an artist colony devoted to producing handcrafted items.)
Arranged into subdivisions: Portraits, Facilities, and Work.
Portraits
Call No.: LOT 11744-1 (F)
Roycroft. St. Jerome
Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81430 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Jerome Stanley Connor, ca. 1875-1943, sculptor, head-and-shoulders portrait, serious expression.
Roycroft Shops, East Aurora, New York. Alexis J. Fournier (1865-1948), the "Roycroft Court Painter," seated by window, in profile, reading
Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81431 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Roycroft. St. Jerome
Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81432 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Jerome Stanley Connor, ca. 1875-1943, sculptor, posed with bust of young boy.
Roycroft. Uncle John
Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81433 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: head-and-shoulders portrait of old man with white beard. John was a woodworker and horse trainer for the artist colony.
Roycroft. Mr. Hawthorne
Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81434 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Lyle Hawthorne ("the Rube," "The Red One"), full-length, posed with hand on door of the Fournier House, East Aurora, New York
Roycroft. Sammy the Artist
Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81435 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Samuel Warner, Roycroft's first art director, seated at table.
Roycroft. Ali Baba
Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81436 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Anson Alonzo Blackman (b. 1839), handyman, three-quarter length informal portrait, seated in chair outside building, hand on hip, other holding paperback book.
Roycroft. Ali Baba
Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81437 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Anson Alonzo Blackman (b. 1839), handyman, seated in rustic chair outside a building, reading paperback book.
Roycroft. Ali Baba
Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81438 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Anson Alonzo Blackman (b. 1839), handyman, smiling, seated, in rustic chair outside a building, arms akimbo, paperback book held on lap.
Roycroft. W.W. Denslow
Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81439 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: William Wallace Denslow (1856-1915), cartoonist and illustrator, three-quarter length portrait, with artist's bow at neck, standing by a posted caricature of man at door with welcome mat.
Roycroft. Mr. Monahan
Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81440 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Mr. Michael Monahan, half-length portrait, left profile, holding walking stick whose top is carved with Roycroft symbol.
Roycroft. Mrs. Hawthorne
Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81480 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Mrs. Lyle Hawthorne, half-length portrait, with baby, her young daughter standing at right.
Facilities
Call No.: LOT 11744-2 (F)
Roycroft Group
Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81441 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Group of ladies and a few boys posed outside at the first Print Shop (1897-1898 shingled building) at left, handyman Ali Baba posed with wheelbarrow at right.
Roycroft Chapel, East Aurora, N.Y. Three small children posed in front. Tower visible
Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81442 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Roycroft Chapel, East Aurora, N.Y. Three small children posed in front
Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81443 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Roycroft Shops, East Aurora, N.Y. Handyman Ali Baba posed with two girls on his wheelbarrow, in front of the first Print Shop (1897-1898) and the Phalanstery (1899), taller building at top left
Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81444 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Roycroft
Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81464 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Roycroft shop interior. This was the first Print Shop. Rustic stone fireplace at left with seahorse shaped andirons (designed 1899 by W.W. Denslow), a round wooden table at right and work area filled with books and art.
Roycroft. Rustic stone fireplace / hearth of dressed stone with inset arch. Ironwork surround, iron andirons with shamrock details, and a swinging iron stand for a pot
Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81465 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Roycroft Shop
Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81466 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: The first Print Shop (1897-1898), seen from another angle. Interior with hats hanging from rafters, book binding area. Round table at right.
Work
Call No.: LOT 11744-3 (F)
Roycroft
Call No.: LOT 11744-3, no. 81445 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Seven women artists working at tables. Window at upper right.
Roycroft Shop, East Aurora, New York
Call No.: LOT 11744-3, no. 81446 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Two men in the Roycroft Blacksmith Shop (1899), one at left working at anvil and other standing at table working on wrought-iron chandelier. Andirons are seen at lower right.
Roycroft
Call No.: LOT 11744-3, no. 81447 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Bindery of the Roycroft Press. Two young girls seated pasting with a brush at a table (book making), and woman standing working on a book in the shop.
Roycroft
Call No.: LOT 11744-3, no. 81448 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Roycroft Press. Interior, with two men seated at table with type sorting boxes.
Roycroft
Call No.: LOT 11744-3, no. 81449 (F)
Extent: 1 cyanotype
Summary: Roycroft Press. Interior of bindery with woman handling stack of books at table, piled with stacks of other books. Two caricatures and one Asian portrait are on wall.
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