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Materials created by Frances Benjamin Johnston (continued)
Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1899-1900
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11051 (H)
Extent: 173 photoprints : 164 gelatin silver, 9 cyanotype ; 23 x 35 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Afro-American students in laboratories and liberal arts and agricultural science classes. Vocational education, including shipbuilding at Newport News, farming, carpentry, and home economics activities. Whittier Primary School classes. Group portraits of student organizations and band. Buildings, campus, and rural life in surrounding area.
Arranged by topic.
City experiment in gardening, Bryant Park, New York, N.Y., ca. 1922
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11310 (F)
Extent: 7 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 19 x 24 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Group of visitors watching gardener at work in garden project in Bryant Park. Children accompanied by adult reading signs describing plants, growth processes, and cultivation techniques.
Washington Inauguration Centennial Celebration, New York, N.Y., April-May 1889
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11330 (F)
Extent: 35 photoprints : 34 cyanotype, 1 gelatin silver ; 13 x 18 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Naval parade in harbor, April 29, 1889. Military, civic, and industrial parades held April 20 and May 1, including members of patriotic societies, Benjamin Harrison, and Oliver Ames; floats--some advertising business enterprises; spectators; police.
White House, Washington, D.C., 1889-1906
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11350 (G) (H)
Extent: 499 photoprints : 351 gelatin silver, 139 cyanotype, 9 albumen ; 25 x 30 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Exterior views and floor plans. Interiors, including East Room, Green Room, Blue Room, Red Room, dining rooms, unidentified formal rooms, corridors and vestibules, President's office and library, bedrooms and nursery, Cabinet Room, staff offices and work areas, and conservatory. Paintings, decorative pieces, and sculpture. Gardens, grounds, and outbuildings; outdoor events, such as receptions.
Arranged by location or topic.
Pastoral play and country fair in Washington, D.C., May 4, 1906
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11500 (F)
Extent: 189 photoprints : 136 gelatin silver, 53 cyanotype ; 30 x 23 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes actors and actresses portraying the seasons, shepherdesses, milkmaids, etc., outdoors; dancing minuet; posed for individual and group portraits. People at fair booths, including Johnston's tintype gallery; fortune tellers. (Fund raising event sponsored by local charity organizations for relief of victims of San Francisco fire--Washington Post, May 4, 1906.)
Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, ca. 1902
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11528 (G)
Extent: 91 photoprints : 55 gelatin silver, 36 cyanotype 24 x 30 cm. or smaller and 27 photomechanical prints : halftone images 14 x 20 cm. or smaller, on 12 sheets 29 x 24 cm.
Summary: Includes buildings, grounds, midshipmen's activities, visitors, including Theodore Roosevelt; street scenes in Annapolis.
Washington, D.C., architecture and views, 1890-194-?
Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G) (H)
Extent: 2,179 photoprints : 1,353 gelatin silver, 814 cyanotype, 12 albumen ; 41 x 51 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Buildings, including government buildings, museums and libraries, residences, commercial buildings, schools, churches, organizations' buildings; includes views of interiors, furnishings, architectural elements. Monuments; gardens; street scenes. A few of government housing during World War I, Center Market, and flood conditions. Portraits included in some views of sites.
Photos are arranged alphabetically, primarily by name of structure (e.g. British Embassy) or surname of building owner (e.g. Tuckerman, Lucius, House). Some entries include such information as name of architect(s), alternate or later names of the structure, and dates built or demolished. Date given in the title is the approximate date the photograph was taken.
BOX 1 Adams Memorial, Rock Creek Cemetery, 1909
Architect: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 1 photograph
BOX 1 Allen, Mrs. Nellie B., 1825 R Street NW, ca. 1930
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 5 photographs
BOX 1 American Security and Trust Co., 1405 G Street NW
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 17 photographs
Note: Built in 1901.
BOX 1 Anderson, Larz, 2118 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, ca. 1910
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 41 photographs
Note: Later: Society of the Cincinnati.
BOX 1 Anderson, Nicholas L., 1530 K Street NW at 16th street
Architect: H.H. Richardson
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 1 photograph
Note: Built 1881-1883. Demolished 1925.
BOX 1 Art Students League
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 2 photographs
BOX 1 Austrian Embassy, 1893
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 2 photographs
Note: Built in 1893.
BOX 1 Bachelor's German National Rifle's Hall
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 1 photograph
BOX 1 Barber, Amzi L., House, "Belmont," Clifton Street NW between 13th and 14th Street NW
Architect: Theophilus P. Chandler
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 19 photographs
Note: Demolished 1915.
BOX 1 Bell, Alexander Graham, House, 1331 Connecticut Avenue NW
Architect: Hornblower & Marshall
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 2 photographs
Note: Built 1892. Demolished 1930.
BOX 1 Beveridge, Sen. Albert Jeremiah (died 1927)
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 2 photographs
BOX 1 Blount House
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 4 photographs
BOX 1 Boardman, William P., 1801 P Street NW
Architect: Hornblower & Marshall
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 35 photographs
Note: Later: Embassy of Iraq.
BOX 1 Bonsal, Mrs. Stephen, 3142 P Street NW
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 7 photographs
BOX 1 Brazilian Legation, Mendonça House, New Hampshire Avenue NW, near Dupont Circle, 1893
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 27 photographs
BOX 2 British Embassy, 3100 Massachusetts Avenue NW, ca. 1940
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 18 photographs
BOX 2 British Legation Embassy, Connecticut Avenue NW at N Street, 1893
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 3 photographs
Note: Demolished.
BOX 2 Brown, Henry, 1720 16th Street NW
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 1 photograph
BOX 2 Bureau of Printing and Engraving: Fold. & Env., ca. 1890
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 58 photographs
BOX 3, 17 Burling, Edward B., House and Gardens, 2900 Benton Road NW, May 1931
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G) (H)
Extent: 31 photographs
BOX 3 Burnes' Cottage (David Burnes Cottage), 17th Street NW near B Street [Constitution Avenue], ca. 1890
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 3 photographs
Note: Built ca. 1760. Earliest building on site of DC. Demolished. Site now: Pan American Union.
BOX 3 Cairo Flats, 1615 Q Street NW
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 2 photographs
BOX 3 Capitol Building, U.S.
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 31 photographs
BOX 4 Center Market, 17th and B Street [Constitution Avenue] NW
Call No.: LOT 11727 (G)
Extent: 5 photographs
BOX 4 Chinese Legation, "Stewart Castle," ("Stewart's Castle"), Dupont Circle, 1913 Massachusetts Avenue NW at Connecticut Avenue, 1893
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