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Photographic Prints (continued)
Materials created by Frances Benjamin Johnston (continued)
Portraits, ca. 1890-ca. 1910 (continued)
BOX 27 Wynne, Robert
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 4 photographs
Note: Postmaster General, 1905
BOX 27 York, Mrs.
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 9 photographs
BOX 27 Young, Warrens
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 1 photograph
BOX 27 Zeb, child
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 1 photograph
BOX 28 Unidentified Portraits, Group #1
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 99 photographs
BOX 28 Unidentified Portraits, Group #2
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 127 photographs
BOX 28 Unidentified Portraits, Group #4
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 19 photographs
BOX 28 Unidentified Portraits, Group #5
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 9 photographs
BOX 28 Unidentified Portraits, Group #6
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 17 photographs
Note: mounted
BOX 29 Unidentified Portraits, Group #7
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 17 photographs
Note: Misc.
BOX 29 Unidentified Portraits, Group #8
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 4 photographs
BOX 29 Unidentified Portraits, Group #9
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 9 photographs
BOX 29 Unidentified Portraits, Group # 10
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 16 photographs
Note: mounted
BOX 29 Unidentified Portraits, Group #11
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 19 photographs
BOX 29 Unidentified woman
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 6 photographs
BOX 29 Unidentified boy and girl
Call No.: LOT 11735 (G)
Extent: 9 photographs
BOX 31 Unidentified Oversize Portraits, miscellaneous
Call No.: LOT 11735 (H)
Arts Club of Washington, Washington, D.C., 1927-1947
Creator(s): Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer; H.H. Rideout (Firm : Washington, D.C.), photographer; Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.), photographer; Tenschert & Flack (Washington, D.C.), photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11736 (G)
Extent: 66 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 30 x 26 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Activities of Arts Club, including setting up for "La Foure aux Croutes"--a white elephant fund raising sale, window displays, men and women dressed in costume of artists and peasants for performance. Arts Club garden. Mrs. Grace Rice posed in front of building.
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
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