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Photographic Prints
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Materials created by Frances
Benjamin Johnston
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Arts Club of Washington,
Washington, D.C., 1927-1947
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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. |
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Call No.: LOT 11736 (G) |
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Extent: 66 photoprints : gelatin
silver ; 30 x 26 cm. or smaller. |
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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. |
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Frances Benjamin
Johnston's photographic studio, Washington, D.C., ca. 1890-ca.
1913
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 11738 (G) (H) |
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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. |
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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. |
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Frances Benjamin
Johnston's trip to the western United States, 1903
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 11739 (G) |
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Extent: 301 photoprints : 257
gelatin silver, 44 cyanotype ; 23 x 28 cm. or smaller. |
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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. |
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Arranged by site. |
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Family trip to Hamilton,
Bermuda, ca. 1915
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 11742 (F) |
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Extent: 27 photoprints : gelatin
silver ; 9 x 12 cm. or smaller. |
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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). |
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Frances Benjamin
Johnston's photograph exhibition materials, ca. 1895-1906
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 11743 (H) |
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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. |
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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). |
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Roycroft Shops, East
Aurora, New York, 1900
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 11744 (F) |
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Extent: 39 photoprints :
cyanotype ; 19 x 25 cm. or smaller. |
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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. |
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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.) |
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Arranged into subdivisions: Portraits, Facilities, and Work. |
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Portraits
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1 (F) |
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Roycroft. St.
Jerome |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81430 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Jerome Stanley Connor,
ca. 1875-1943, sculptor, head-and-shoulders portrait,
serious expression. |
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Roycroft Shops,
East Aurora, New York. Alexis J. Fournier (1865-1948), the
"Roycroft Court Painter," seated by window, in profile,
reading |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81431 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Roycroft. St.
Jerome |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81432 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Jerome Stanley Connor,
ca. 1875-1943, sculptor, posed with bust of young boy. |
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Roycroft. Uncle
John |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81433 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: head-and-shoulders
portrait of old man with white beard. John was a woodworker
and horse trainer for the artist colony. |
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Roycroft. Mr.
Hawthorne |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81434 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Lyle Hawthorne ("the
Rube," "The Red One"), full-length, posed with hand on door
of the Fournier House, East Aurora, New York |
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Roycroft. Sammy
the Artist |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81435 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Samuel Warner,
Roycroft's first art director, seated at table. |
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Roycroft. Ali
Baba |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81436 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Anson Alonzo Blackman
(b. 1839), handyman, three-quarter length informal portrait,
seated in chair outside building, hand on hip, other holding
paperback book. |
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Roycroft. Ali
Baba |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81437 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Anson Alonzo Blackman
(b. 1839), handyman, seated in rustic chair outside a
building, reading paperback book. |
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Roycroft. Ali
Baba |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81438 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Anson Alonzo Blackman
(b. 1839), handyman, smiling, seated, in rustic chair
outside a building, arms akimbo, paperback book held on
lap. |
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Roycroft. W.W.
Denslow |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81439 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: William Wallace Denslow
(1856-1915), cartoonist and illustrator, three-quarter
length portrait, with artist's bow at neck, standing by a
posted caricature of man at door with welcome mat. |
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Roycroft. Mr.
Monahan |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81440 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Mr. Michael Monahan,
half-length portrait, left profile, holding walking stick
whose top is carved with Roycroft symbol. |
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Roycroft. Mrs.
Hawthorne |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-1, no. 81480 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Mrs. Lyle Hawthorne,
half-length portrait, with baby, her young daughter standing
at right. |
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Facilities
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Call No.: LOT 11744-2 (F) |
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Roycroft
Group |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81441 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Group of ladies and a
few boys posed outside at the first Print Shop (1897-1898
shingled building) at left, handyman Ali Baba posed with
wheelbarrow at right. |
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Roycroft Chapel,
East Aurora, N.Y. Three small children posed in front. Tower
visible |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81442 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Roycroft Chapel,
East Aurora, N.Y. Three small children posed in
front |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81443 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Roycroft Shops,
East Aurora, N.Y. Handyman Ali Baba posed with two girls on
his wheelbarrow, in front of the first Print Shop
(1897-1898) and the Phalanstery (1899), taller building at
top left |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81444 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Roycroft |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81464 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Roycroft shop interior.
This was the first Print Shop. Rustic stone fireplace at
left with seahorse shaped andirons (designed 1899 by W.W.
Denslow), a round wooden table at right and work area filled
with books and art. |
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Roycroft. Rustic
stone fireplace / hearth of dressed stone with inset arch.
Ironwork surround, iron andirons with shamrock details, and
a swinging iron stand for a pot |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81465 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Roycroft
Shop |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-2, no. 81466 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: The first Print Shop
(1897-1898), seen from another angle. Interior with hats
hanging from rafters, book binding area. Round table at
right. |
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Work
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Call No.: LOT 11744-3 (F) |
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Roycroft |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-3, no. 81445 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Seven women artists
working at tables. Window at upper right. |
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Roycroft Shop,
East Aurora, New York |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-3, no. 81446 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Two men in the Roycroft
Blacksmith Shop (1899), one at left working at anvil and
other standing at table working on wrought-iron chandelier.
Andirons are seen at lower right. |
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Roycroft |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-3, no. 81447 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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Summary: Bindery of the Roycroft
Press. Two young girls seated pasting with a brush at a
table (book making), and woman standing working on a book in
the shop. |
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Roycroft |
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Call No.: LOT 11744-3, no. 81448 (F) |
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Extent: 1
cyanotype |
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