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Materials collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston (continued)
Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston, ca. 1870-ca. 1950, (bulk 1894-1900)
Related Name: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector.
Call No.: LOT 3222 (H)
Extent: 147 photographic prints and 1 album containing additional photographs
Note: For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog to preserve the fragile original items.
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.
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.
Old Deerfield, ca. 1900
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 1 (H size)
Extent: 1 album (21 cyanotypes) : 14 x 25 cm. (album)
Note: Photographs show historic homes and areas in Old Deerfield, Mass. Includes annotations by the Allen sisters on each photograph.
Calls in Cranford, ca. 1900
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 2 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 21 x 13 cm. mounted on black paper, 31 x 23 cm., with black intermediate mount.
Note: Photograph for book illustration shows a woman dressed in mid-19th century period costume descending stone stairs.
How d'y do?, ca. 1900
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 3 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 21 x 15 cm. mounted on black paper, 30 x 23 cm.
Note: Photograph for book illustration shows two women, in mid-19th century period costumes, standing in a doorway greeting each other.
In May, ca. 1900
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 4 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 16 x 21 cm. mounted on dark gray mat, 26 x 31 cm.
Note: Landscape photograph showing field with a stream, trees, and bushes.
Miss Fidelia with her lover's profile, ca. 1900
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 5 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 21 x 16 cm. mounted on dark gray mat, 31 x 27 cm.
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.
Old burying ground, 1892
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 6 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 13 x 10 cm.
Note: Photograph shows a young boy sitting by an old tombstone in a cemetery.
Specimen illustrations for a monograph on clay stones by J.M. Arms Sheldon, ca. 1900
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 7 (H size)
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.
A New England sibyl, between 1880 and 1890
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 8 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 22 x 18 cm. mounted on pale gray paper, 25 x 21 cm.
Note: Photograph shows Judith Allen (1811-1890), aunt of the Allen sisters, seated in a chair, reading a large book.
Colonial glassware, specimen illustratons, ca. 1898
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 9 (H size)
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.
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."
A "crack" with the blacksmith, ca. 1900
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 10 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 20 x 15 cm. mounted on black mat, 28 x 22 cm.
Note: Photograph shows two children talking(?) to a blacksmith standing in the doorway of his forge.
Bread & milk, 1894
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 11 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : carbon ; 16 x 11 cm. mounted on light gray paper, 22 x 17 cm.
Note: Photograph shows a little boy, seated at a table, feeding himself with a spoon.
A Holbein woman, ca. 1890
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 12 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 20 x 14 cm. mounted on black paper, 31 x 21 cm., with gray intermediate mount.
Note: Photograph is a head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman dressed and posed in the style of a painting by Hans Holbein.
A Holbein woman, ca. 1890
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 13 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : albumen ; 12 x 10 cm. mounted on light gray board, 28 x 23 cm.
Note: Photograph is a head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman dressed and posed in the style of a painting by Hans Holbein.
Willows, ca. 1900
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 14 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 21 x 15 cm. on Rembrandt mount, 31 x 26 cm.
Note: Photograph shows willow trees by a stream.
The difficult step, ca. 1900
Creator: Allen, Frances S. (Frances Stebbins), 1854-1941, photographer.; Allen, Mary E. (Mary Electa), 1858-1941, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 15 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 19 x 12 cm. mounted on dark gray paper, 37 x 26 cm.
Note: Photograph shows a woman, holding an infant while helping her young child walk. Subjects have been identified as Mrs. Albert Busha and children.
Portrait of a girl with a necklace clasping a shawl, ca. 1900
Creator: Austin, Alice, 1862-1933, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 16 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 15.4 x 10.7 cm.
The brook, 1895
Creator: Babcock, Wallace C., photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 17 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 12 x 20 cm. on mount, 27 x 35 cm.
Note: Photograph shows landscape view of a brook with sheep grazing in background.
Young woman seated by a window with flowers in her lap, ca. 1900
Creator: Bartlett, Mary A., -1847 photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 18 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : kallitype ; 18 x 13 cm. on plum colored paper mount, 31 x 26 cm., with ivory intermediate mount.
A riverbed in the woods, ca. 1900
Creator: Bartlett, Mary A., -1847 photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 19 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : salted paper ; 15 x 20 cm. on textured, cream stock mount, 26 x 31 cm.
Elsie Leslie, 1899
Creator: Ben-Yusuf, Zaida, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 20 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 24 x 14 cm. mounted on cream mat, 25 x 15 cm.
Note: Photograph is full-length portrait of actress Elsie Leslie in costume as Lydia Languish in Richard Sheridan's play The Rivals.
Night, c1896.
Creator: Berg, Charles I., 1856-1926, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 21 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 22 x 18 cm.
Note: A nude woman draped in gauzy fabric posing as if a statue.
Elderly woman in a rocking chair peeling apple with young girl standing in front of her, ca. 1900
Creator: Brownell, Elizabeth B., photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 22 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 16 x 14 cm. mounted on black paper, 22 x 19 cm., with black intermediate mount.
We're going to have warm potatoes!, ca. 1900
Creator: Brownell, Elizabeth B., photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 23 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 21 x 12 cm. mounted on black paper, 31 x 21 cm., with black intermediate mount.
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.
Young boy holding a smaller child, ca. 1900
Creator: Brownell, Elizabeth B., photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 24 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 15 x 7 cm. mounted on light blue paper, 15 x 8 cm.
Spirit of Tiny Tim! Thy childish essence was from God, ca. 1900
Creator: Brownell, Elizabeth B., photographer.
Call No.: LOT 3222, no. 25 (H size)
Extent: 1 photographic print : platinum ; 19 x 9 cm. mounted on black paper, 28 x 16 cm., with black intermediate mount.
Young woman at her first communion with an attendant, ca. 1900
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