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Materials created by Frances Benjamin Johnston (continued)
Junior Republic, ca. 1900
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 12377 (F)
Extent: 6 photoprints : cyanotype ; 18 x 24 cm.
Summary: Boys reading and writing in classroom with teacher looking on; conducting a meeting; playing musical instruments; posed wearing uniforms and swords. (Possibly George Junior Republic in Freeville, New York.)
Custom House, ca. 1905
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 12378 (F)
Extent: 8 photoprints : cyanotype ; 19 x 25 cm.
Summary: Groups of people sitting at a table conferring with man who is writing; searching through trunks, standing in line. Probably a U.S. customs house, possibly in New York City.
Railway Appliance Exhibition, between 1885 and 1900
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 12379 (F)
Extent: 4 photoprints : cyanotype ; 19 x 25 cm.
Summary: Displays of printing samples by Matthews-Northrup Works, and of machinery by Buffalo Forge Company and by Railroad Supply Company of New York. One outdoor view of exhibition area and railroad tracks. (Exhibition probably held in New York State).
"Chatham," Colonel Daniel Bradford Devore house, 120 Chatham Lane, Fredericksburg, Stafford County, Virginia, 1927?
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 12411 (F)
Extent: 152 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 21 x 26 cm.
Summary: Gardens, with statuary, fountains, peacock, and ponds. Outbuildings, showing farm animals and men pitching hay(?). Interiors, with furnishings, architectural elements such as fireplaces and doorways. Mansion exteriors, some showing pet dogs.
"Whitemarsh Hall," Edward Townsend Stotesbury house, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, ca. 1922
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 12501 (F)
Extent: 93 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 20 x 24 cm. or smaller.
Note: Johnston took the photos on commission for the Stotesbury family. Penciled numbers corresponding to numbers in Stotesbury album and some captions on versos. Stamp for Johnston's New York City studio on most.
Summary: Interiors, including several bedrooms, showing furniture, art works--especially painting and sculpture--organ, and architectural elements. Exteriors, with gardens, paths, and fountains.
See Also: LOT 12640, LOT 12647, and LOT 12680.
Alabama, Florida, and Georgia architecture, 1936-1939
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 12623 (F)
Extent: 7 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 25 x 21 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Dwellings and mansions in Alabama; University of Alabama building in Tuscaloosa. Street, Father O'Reilly House, and wall of Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. Presbyterian church in Savannah, Georgia.
See Also: LOT 12650 for related, larger photoprints.
Louisiana architecture and people, 1937-1938
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 12624 (H)
Extent: 65 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 50 x 40 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes mansions, estate and plantation buildings (some abandoned), sugar refinery, courthouse, and post office. New Orleans commercial buildings, historic buildings, cathedral, apartment house, park statues, and Tulane University building. Some highlight architectural elements. New Orleans scenes, such as child posing on street, woman doing needlework in street while boys look on from stairway of laundry-hung dwelling, men playing game beside building. Non-urban scenes, including black woman hanging laundry and children standing beside dwelling, "The Rookery"; blacks being baptized in Mississippi River.
Arranged by parish.
See Also: LOT 12636 for related, smaller photoprints.
Acadia Parish
Call No.: LOT 12624-1 (H)
Extent: None
State: Louisiana Parish: Acadia Parish
Burnside post office
Call No.: LOT 12624-2 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Ascension Parish
Garconniere (Bachelors)
Call No.: LOT 12624-2 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Ascension Parish
Woodlawn
Call No.: LOT 12624-3 (H)
Extent: 2 photoprints
State: Louisiana Parish: Assumption Parish
Hackbury Hall (The Cottage)
Call No.: LOT 12624-4 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: East Baton Rouge Parish
Clinton Courthouse
Call No.: LOT 12624-5 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: East Feliciana Parish
The Shadows (mansion)
Call No.: LOT 12624-6 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Iberia Parish
Belle Grove (mansion)
Call No.: LOT 12624-7 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Iberville Parish
Baptism in Bayou Lafourche
Call No.: LOT 12624-8 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Lafourche Parish
Absinthe House
Call No.: LOT 12624-9 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Orleans Parish
Audubon Park statues
Call No.: LOT 12624-9 (H)
Extent: 2 photoprints
State: Louisiana Parish: Orleans Parish
Gauche House
Call No.: LOT 12624-9 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Orleans Parish
Gonzales, Vincent (house)
Call No.: LOT 12624-9 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Orleans Parish
Madame John's Legacy
Call No.: LOT 12624-9 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Orleans Parish
Napolean House
Call No.: LOT 12624-9 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Orleans Parish
Le Petre (House of the Turk)
Call No.: LOT 12624-9 (H)
Extent: 3 photoprints
State: Louisiana Parish: Orleans Parish
Pontalba Apartments
Call No.: LOT 12624-9 (H)
Extent: 2 photoprints
State: Louisiana Parish: Orleans Parish
Robinson House
Call No.: LOT 12624-9 (H)
Extent: 2 photoprints
State: Louisiana Parish: Orleans Parish
Soule School
Call No.: LOT 12624-9 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Orleans Parish
Spanish Court
Call No.: LOT 12624-9 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Orleans Parish
Spanish Custom House
Call No.: LOT 12624-9 (H)
Extent: 1 photoprint
State: Louisiana Parish: Orleans Parish
Spanish Stables
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