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Photographic Prints
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Materials collected by
Frances Benjamin Johnston
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Artistic photographs
collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston, ca. 1870-ca. 1950, (bulk 1894-1900)
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Related Name:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector.
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Call No.: LOT 3222 (H) |
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Extent: 147 photographic prints
and 1 album containing additional photographs |
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Note: For reference access, please
use the digital images in the online catalog to preserve the fragile
original items. |
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Summary: Artistic photographs by
approximately 50 photographers (primarily women), collected by
Frances Benjamin Johnston. Some of the photographs were exhibited as
the work of American women in photography at the Exposition
universelle internationale de 1900 in Paris, France, and in Moscow.
Includes character studies of adults, children, and mothers with
children; people posed in historical-style costumes or enacting
scenes; genre scenes; portraits; landscapes; book illustrations, and
a photograph album of Old Deerfield, Mass. Pictorialist and other
photographic styles are represented. Most photographs are on
original mounts with many having a label affixed by Frances Benjamin
Johnston. |
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Arranged alphabetically by photographer with some unidentified. Some
of the photographs were moved from LOT 3222 to the PH filing
series for photographs individually cataloged. |
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Old Deerfield, ca. 1900
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 1 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 album (21
cyanotypes) : 14 x 25 cm. (album) |
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Note: Photographs show
historic homes and areas in Old Deerfield, Mass. Includes
annotations by the Allen sisters on each photograph. |
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Calls in Cranford,
ca. 1900
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 2 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 21 x 13 cm. mounted on black paper, 31 x 23 cm.,
with black intermediate mount. |
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Note: Photograph for book
illustration shows a woman dressed in mid-19th century period
costume descending stone stairs. |
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How d'y do?, ca. 1900
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 3 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 21 x 15 cm. mounted on black paper, 30 x 23
cm. |
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Note: Photograph for book
illustration shows two women, in mid-19th century period
costumes, standing in a doorway greeting each other. |
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In May, ca. 1900
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 4 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 16 x 21 cm. mounted on dark gray mat, 26 x 31
cm. |
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Note: Landscape photograph
showing field with a stream, trees, and bushes. |
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Miss Fidelia with
her lover's profile, ca. 1900
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 5 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 21 x 16 cm. mounted on dark gray mat, 31 x 27
cm. |
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Note: Photograph for book
illustration shows a woman,"Miss Fidelia", dressed in mid-19th
century style costume, sitting in front of fireplace looking at
framed silhouette of a man. |
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Old burying ground,
1892
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 6 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 13 x 10 cm. |
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Note: Photograph shows a young
boy sitting by an old tombstone in a cemetery. |
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Specimen
illustrations for a monograph on clay stones by J.M. Arms
Sheldon, ca.
1900
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 7 (H size) |
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Extent: 2 photographic prints
(1 board) : platinum ; 9 x 13 cm. (top) and 9 x 10 cm. (bottom)
mounted on a single board, 26 x 21 cm. |
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A New England sibyl,
between 1880
and 1890
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 8 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: gelatin silver ; 22 x 18 cm. mounted on pale gray paper, 25 x
21 cm. |
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Note: Photograph shows Judith
Allen (1811-1890), aunt of the Allen sisters, seated in a chair,
reading a large book. |
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Colonial glassware,
specimen illustratons, ca. 1898
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 9 (H size) |
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Extent: 2 photographic prints
(1 board) : platinum ; 10 x 18 cm. (top image) and 11 x 17 cm.
(bottom image) mounted on single gray board, 28 x 23
cm. |
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Note: Top image shows various
flasks with notation "for Alice Morse Earle's Home Life in
Colonial Days"; bottom image shows a variety of glassware with
notation "for article by M.Y. Wynne in "The House
Beautiful." |
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A "crack" with the
blacksmith, ca.
1900
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 10 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 20 x 15 cm. mounted on black mat, 28 x 22
cm. |
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Note: Photograph shows two
children talking(?) to a blacksmith standing in the doorway of
his forge. |
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Bread & milk,
1894
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 11 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: carbon ; 16 x 11 cm. mounted on light gray paper, 22 x 17
cm. |
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Note: Photograph shows a
little boy, seated at a table, feeding himself with a
spoon. |
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A Holbein woman,
ca. 1890
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 12 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: gelatin silver ; 20 x 14 cm. mounted on black paper, 31 x 21
cm., with gray intermediate mount. |
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Note: Photograph is a
head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman dressed and posed in the
style of a painting by Hans Holbein. |
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A Holbein woman,
ca. 1890
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 13 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: albumen ; 12 x 10 cm. mounted on light gray board, 28 x 23
cm. |
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Note: Photograph is a
head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman dressed and posed in the
style of a painting by Hans Holbein. |
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Willows, ca. 1900
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 14 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 21 x 15 cm. on Rembrandt mount, 31 x 26
cm. |
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Note: Photograph shows willow
trees by a stream. |
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The difficult step,
ca. 1900
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Creator:
Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.;
Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 15 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 19 x 12 cm. mounted on dark gray paper, 37 x 26
cm. |
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Note: Photograph shows a
woman, holding an infant while helping her young child walk.
Subjects have been identified as Mrs. Albert Busha and
children. |
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Portrait of a girl
with a necklace clasping a shawl, ca. 1900
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Creator:
Austin, Alice, 1862-1933, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 16 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 15.4 x 10.7 cm. |
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The brook, 1895
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Creator:
Babcock, Wallace C., photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 17 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 12 x 20 cm. on mount, 27 x 35 cm. |
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Note: Photograph shows
landscape view of a brook with sheep grazing in
background. |
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Young woman seated
by a window with flowers in her lap, ca. 1900
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Creator:
Bartlett, Mary A., -1847 photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 18 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: kallitype ; 18 x 13 cm. on plum colored paper mount, 31 x 26
cm., with ivory intermediate mount. |
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A riverbed in the
woods, ca. 1900
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Creator:
Bartlett, Mary A., -1847 photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 19 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: salted paper ; 15 x 20 cm. on textured, cream stock mount, 26
x 31 cm. |
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Elsie Leslie, 1899
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Creator:
Ben-Yusuf, Zaida, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 20 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 24 x 14 cm. mounted on cream mat, 25 x 15
cm. |
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Note: Photograph is
full-length portrait of actress Elsie Leslie in costume as Lydia
Languish in Richard Sheridan's play The Rivals. |
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Night, c1896.
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Creator:
Berg, Charles I., 1856-1926, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 21 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 22 x 18 cm. |
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Note: A nude woman draped in
gauzy fabric posing as if a statue. |
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Elderly woman in a
rocking chair peeling apple with young girl standing in front of
her, ca. 1900
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Creator:
Brownell, Elizabeth B., photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 22 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 16 x 14 cm. mounted on black paper, 22 x 19 cm.,
with black intermediate mount. |
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We're going to have
warm potatoes!, ca.
1900
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Creator:
Brownell, Elizabeth B., photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 23 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 21 x 12 cm. mounted on black paper, 31 x 21 cm.,
with black intermediate mount. |
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Note: Photograph shows a young
boy and two younger girls, dressed in colonial-era(?) clothing,
standing together. Photograph was an illustration for story "The
Candles" in Brownell's book, Dream children. |
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Young boy holding a
smaller child, ca.
1900
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Creator:
Brownell, Elizabeth B., photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 24 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 15 x 7 cm. mounted on light blue paper, 15 x 8
cm. |
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Spirit of Tiny Tim!
Thy childish essence was from God, ca. 1900
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Creator:
Brownell, Elizabeth B., photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 25 (H size) |
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Extent: 1 photographic print
: platinum ; 19 x 9 cm. mounted on black paper, 28 x 16 cm.,
with black intermediate mount. |
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