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Photographic Prints
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Materials created by Frances
Benjamin Johnston
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Washington, D.C., school
survey, 1899?
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2749 (G) (OSE) |
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Extent: 361 photoprints :
cyanotype ; 19 x 24 cm. or smaller. |
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Extent: 4 published
booklets. |
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Extent: 1 oversized
map. |
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Summary: Includes high schools, junior
high schools, elementary, and vocational schools in Washington, D.C.
School activities including chemistry, cooking, drawing, physical
education classes; excursions to museums, zoo, Library of
Congress. |
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Arranged by photographer's numbers, 1-416B. |
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Pinkey's blue book, or,
The indigo agonies of a photographic amateur, November 2, 1888-December 6,
1888
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2763 (H) |
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Extent: 1 album (44 photoprints)
; 21 x 27 cm. |
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Note: Use digital images. Original
served only by appointment because material requires special
handling. For more information, see:
https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.info.apptonly |
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Summary: Portraits of Arts Students'
League members, including Miss Perrie in "empire costume";
government officials in their offices, including Dr. John Scott of
Pension Office; two photos of Johnston ("Pinkey"), one with camera.
Women office workers in Internal Revenue Service. Buildings in
Washington, including Riggs Bank and Dept. of Justice; interiors and
exteriors of residences; interior of Art Students' League decorated
for reception. Gypsy encampment, showing wagons on Glenwood Road
(probably Bethesda, Md.). One photo of bronze statuette. |
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Commissioned photographs
of objects and documents, 1895-1930
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2903 (H) (G) |
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Extent: 192 photographic prints :
119 gelatin silver, 72 cyanotype, 1 albumen ; 31 x 25 cm. or
smaller. |
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Summary: Includes series of sculptures of
U.S. senators by sculptor Barksdale Rogers, exhibited in 1930.
Decorative arts, including glass, china, needlework, furniture,
religious articles, and Carmichael silver. Reproductions of
paintings, drawings, graphics, and photos, including Angela
Kauffmann's drawings for furniture decoration, "Hornblower"
portraits and documents, and McClure Magazine commission of
battleships and Civil War documents and photos. |
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Arranged by commission or subject. |
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Reformed Church
assembly, ca. 1890
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2905 (F) |
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Extent: 7 photoprints : 5
cyanotype, 2 gelatin silver ; 18 x 26 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Group portraits in outdoor
locations; one on shipboard posed with screens bearing heraldic
symbols. Men distributing drink to men seated in church pews. |
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Salt mines, ca. 1893
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2906 (F) |
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Extent: 31 photoprints : 14
gelatin silver, 9 cyanotype, 8 albumen ; 20 x 25 cm. or
smaller. |
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Summary: Workers performing salt mining
and processing activities, including extracting and cleaning
evaporating tanks, packing in sacks, and loading wagons, railroad
cars, and canal boats for transport. |
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National Phonograph Co.,
New York, New York, 1905?
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2907 (F) |
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Extent: 4 photoprints : 3
cyanotype, 1 albumen ; 25 x 20 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Men reading from note pads and
speaking into dictaphones. |
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New York Yacht Race in
Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, 1905
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2908 (F) |
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Extent: 66 photoprints : 38
gelatin silver, 28 cyanotype ; 30 x 24 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Men readying boats; men and
women aboard boats and watching from shore; portrait of child and of
Com. Chas. Pryer of the sloop "Eurybia." Views of boats in bay and
of Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club. |
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National Training School
for Boys, Washington, D.C., ca. 1908
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2909 (F) |
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Extent: 12 photoprints :
cyanotype ; 13 x 18 cm. |
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Summary: Includes dormitories, workshop,
classroom. Boys playing baseball. Group portrait of staff. |
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Daughters of the
American Revolution in Washington, D.C., 1904-1908
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2910 (F) |
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Extent: 43 photographic prints :
27 gelatin silver, 9 cyanotype, 7 platinum ; 24 x 30 cm. or
smaller. |
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Summary: Ceremonies at cornerstone laying
and dedication of Memorial Continental Hall. Interiors showing
decorations. DAR convention activities, including women making
speeches, male dignitaries attending. |
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Shoe factories in Lynn,
Massachusetts, 1895
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2913 (F) |
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Extent: 33 photoprints : 27
cyanotype, 6 albumen ; 25 x 20 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Includes female workers entering
and leaving factories and cutting, sewing, and pasting shoes. Canal
and streets in Lynn; children playing in street; woman hanging
laundry. |
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World's Columbian
Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1891-1893
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2959 (H) |
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Extent: 74 photographic prints :
71 gelatin silver, 3 albumen ; 28 x 36 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Includes Exposition site under
construction and after completion, showing buildings, monuments, and
grounds--especially canals. Asian participants, Javanese musicians,
cockfight. Staff, exhibits, and visitors, including men working in
drafting room, art exhibit, midway, animals, boys posed for photo.
Larger format views overlooking grounds and showing crowds. |
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Arranged by topic. |
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Tuskegee Normal and
Industrial Institute, Alabama, ca. 1902-1906
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2962 (G) (H) |
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Extent: 648 photoprints : 595
gelatin silver, 52 cyanotype, 1 albumen ; 41 x 51 cm. or
smaller. |
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Summary: Includes portraits of Booker T.
Washington and his wife, William H. Taft, Andrew Carnegie, members
of Tuskegee faculty council; group portraits of faculty and
students--one is pieced together to form wide view and possibly also
employs photomontage techniques. Students engaged in classroom and
extracurricular activities; 25th anniversary ceremonies; buildings
under construction. Activities at area institutions founded by
Tuskegee alumni, including Snow Hill Institute, Mount Meigs
Institute, Annie Davis' school. Graphs and charts of statistics
relating to blacks. Pamphlet featuring Johnston photos: The
successful training of the negro / by Booker T. Washington. New York
: Doubleday, Page, & Co., c1903. |
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Indoor Classes,
Activities, & Displays |
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Call No.: LOT 2962-1 (G) (H) |
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Outdoor Classes
& Activities |
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Call No.: LOT 2962-2 (G) |
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Buildings |
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Call No.: LOT 2962-3 (G) |
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Portraits |
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Call No.: LOT 2962-4 (G) (H) |
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Branch &
Vicinity Schools |
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Call No.: LOT 2962-5 (G) |
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Graphs &
Pamphlet |
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Call No.: LOT 2962-6 (G) |
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Cambridge-Harvard boat
race in England, 1906
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2965 (F) |
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Extent: 60 photoprints : 34
cyanotype, 26 gelatin silver ; 13 x 18 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Eight-oared shell boat race
between Harvard and Cambridge universities. Includes teams posed for
portraits, launching boats, on river; spectators on shore; police
controlling crowds; men in living quarters and garden. (Race was
held Sept. 6, 1906, on the Thames, starting at Putney, in London,
England.) |
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World's Fair, St. Louis,
Missouri, 1904
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2966 (G) |
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Extent: 165 photoprints : 78
gelatin silver, 87 cyanotype ; 25 x 30 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Includes grounds, buildings,
waterways with gondolas. Opening ceremonies with spectators and
portraits of officials; procession. Exhibits, including views of
exhibit hall and machinery, Siam display, Africans and Asians in
native costume engaged in activities outside huts such as a mock
fight, shooting with bows and arrows, weaving, and dancing; North
American Indians. |
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Pan-American Exposition,
Buffalo, New York, 1901
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2967 (G) |
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Extent: 279 photoprints : 167
gelatin silver, 112 cyanotype ; 25 x 30 cm. or smaller. |
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Summary: Includes grounds with buildings,
sculpture, and fountains; midway parade; officials. President
McKinley speaking and touring with his entourage. West Point cadets
setting up and in camp, viewing exhibits, on parade, posed for
portraits; U.S. Marines and U.S. Signal Corps giving demonstrations.
Exhibits and exhibitors, including North American Indians,
Egyptians, Africans, and Hawaiians. |
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Coal mines in
Pennsylvania, 1891
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2968 (F) |
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Extent: 11 photoprints : 9
cyanotype, 1 albumen, 1 gelatin silver ; 19 x 25 cm. or
smaller. |
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Summary: Miners, including young boys, at
work and eating. Interiors and exteriors of mine and living
quarters. View of Shenandoah City. |
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Bagchee, Annoda, Prosad
(and others), artists
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 2980 (F) |
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Extent: 10 proofs from
photographs. |
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Note: From an unidentified
scientific publication of the late 19th century, published by the
Gov't school of art, Calcutta. |
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Summary: Blueprint proofs reproducing
pictures of serpents. With scientific terminology. |
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New Theater, New York,
N.Y., ca. 1909-ca.
1910
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Related Name:
New Century Theatre (Organization : New York, N.Y.), copyright holder.
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Call No.: LOT 3611 (H) |
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Extent: 7 photoprints : gelatin
silver ; 36 x 29 cm. or smaller. |
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Note: Johnston took the photos on
commission for John M. Carrère; this was probably Johnston's first
commission for architectural photography. |
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Note: Title devised. Penned
captions on most photos. |
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Summary: Exterior and interior of theater
(also known as Century Theater), including friezes, murals,
decorated arches, ceiling, columns, foyer. |
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Portrait proofs, some
badly faded, of people prominent in politics, art, science,
business, society, etc.
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 4070 (G) |
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Extent: ca. 100 photographic
prints |
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Summary: A supplementary collection
tipped in folders. |
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Mammoth Cave, Kentucky,
ca. 1891-ca.
1893
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 5020 (G) |
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Extent: 119 photoprints : 43
cyanotype, 42 albumen, 34 gelatin silver ; 35 x 28 cm. or
smaller. |
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Summary: Includes tourist party being led
through cave by black guide; cave entrance, iron gate, narrow
passageways, rock formations--some with graffiti on them. Cottages,
including view of veranda, in vicinity of cave. |
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Wooden box industry,
ca. 1910
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Creator:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer.
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Call No.: LOT 7512 (F) |
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