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Photographic Prints (continued)
Materials collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston (continued)
Humorous clippings relating to photography, ca. 1888-ca. 1938
Related Name: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector.
Call No.: LOT 8090 (H)
Extent: 87 items : some color ; 35 x 52 cm. or smaller and 1 photoprint : albumen ; 18 x 23 cm.
Summary: Cartoons, caricatures, illustrations, magazine covers, and anecdotes portraying photographers or photography humorously; taken from publications such as Gossip and Harper's Bazaar.
Nursery rhyme illustrations of kittens, ca. 1875
Related Name: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector, donor.
Call No.: LOT 8154 (G)
Extent: 46 prints : wood engraving, hand col. ; 28 x 19 cm.
Summary: Three(?) nursery rhymes about kittens, including verses from "Three Little Kittens," and verses repeating "Tommy," and "My Mother," with illustrations of cat characters. Probably book illustrations.
Watercolors by Townsbery (?) and L.R. Miner, ca. 1900-ca. 1947
Creator(s): Townsbery (?); Miner, Leigh Richmond, 1864-1935, artist.
Related Name: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector, donor.
Call No.: LOT 8864 (F)
Extent: 4 drawings : watercolor ; 18 x 26 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Three images by Townsbery (or Townsberg?) of reclining cat; image by Miner (probably Leigh Richmond Miner) of figure in a sailboat and its reflection in the water.
Silhouettes, ca. 1900
Related Name: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector.
Call No.: LOT 8866 (F)
Extent: 37 items ; 18 x 12 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Silhouette busts of unidentified men and women.
Frances Benjamin Johnston's family, friends, and career, ca. 1870-ca. 1952, (bulk ca. 1880-ca. 1930)
Creator(s): Thompson, Mills, 1875-1944, artist; Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934, photographer; Rice (Firm : Washington, D.C.), photographer; Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, photographer; C.M. Bell (Firm : Washington, D.C.), photographer.
Call No.: LOT 11734 (G) (H)
Extent: 610 photographic prints : 400 gelatin silver, 128 cyanotype, 82 albumen ; 36 x 29 cm. or smaller and 16 photographs : tintype ; 13 x 8 cm. or smaller and 3 drawings 35 x 28 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Portraits of Frances Benjamin Johnston in her youth and as an adult; individual and group portraits of members of Johnston family and Johnston's friends; pets. Career-related images, including Johnston's studios, Académie Julian in Paris, and Art Students League in Washington, D.C. Johnston's New Orleans, La., home, as well as activities in Morganton, N.C., and Innisfail, Alberta, Canada. One photo of Johnston family tree.
Arranged by size and topic.
Portraits of Frances Benjamin Johnston
Call No.: LOT 11734-1 (G) (H)
Note: Photos of Frances Benjamin Johnston as a young girl through adulthood
Frances Benjamin Johnston (FBJ)'s Family
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Benjamin, Joanette Clark (Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandmother)
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Benjamin, Z.H. (Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandfather)
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Benjamin, Z.H. (Family)
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Decca, Marie (See: Johnston, Mary S.)
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Hagan, Cornelia Benjamin
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Hay, Col. Frank
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Johnston, Anderson (Frances Benjamin Johnston's father)
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Johnston, Miss Elizabeth Bryant (Frances Benjamin Johnston's aunt on paternal side)
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Johnston, Frances Antoinette Benjamin (Frances Benjamin Johnston's mother)
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Johnston, Mary S. (Frances Benjamin Johnston's cousin, stage name Marie Decca)
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Johnston, Sanders Walker
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Johnston, Sarah Hall (Frances Benjamin Johnston's aunt, married to Frances Benjamin Johnston's paternal uncle)
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Johnston Family (group portraits)
Call No.: LOT 11734-2 (G)
Frances Benjamin Johnston and Friends
Call No.: LOT 11734-3 (G)
Note: Frances Benjamin Johnston with identified and unidentified friends, portraits of friends, identified and unidentified groups of people in pageants, posed in street clothes, costumes, interior of friend's home, "Tag Day" Washington, D.C., group at Senator Carter's Montana home, visit with Allen sisters of Deerfield, Massachusetts, G.B. Lorraine, Marshall Hall, Frank Millet's Studio
Family Genealogy
Call No.: LOT 11734-4 (G)
Note: Photo of Craig Family Tree, newspaper clippings and notes relating to Johnston family history.
Pets
Call No.: LOT 11734-5 (G)
Note: Photos of dogs, cats and horses, some owned by Frances Benjamin Johnston
Miscellany Relating to Career
Related Name: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector.
Call No.: LOT 11734-6 (G) (H)
Note: Miscellaneous photos of travels abroad, around the country, photos and articles pertaining to Frances Benjamin Johnston's career, photos of homes and studios throughout her career, many of New Orleans, Art Students' League, Washington, D.C., Académie Julian, "Innisfail," Notre Dame Academy, Washington, D.C. Camera Club.
Card photograph album, 187-?
Related Name: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector.
Call No.: LOT 11737 (H)
Extent: 1 album (133 albumen photoprints on carte de visite and cabinet card mounts) ; 29 x 23. cm.
Summary: Portraits, including Christopher Columbus, Savonarola, Alexander von Humboldt, and Oliver Cromwell, as well as European and British rulers and statesmen, composers, authors, and artists. Many are photographic reproductions of paintings, prints, or sculpture.
Hollywood set prints, 1923
Related Name: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector.
Call No.: LOT 11745 (G)
Extent: 16 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 30 x 24 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Sets and scenes from films, including "The Street Singer," "In the Palace of the King," and Mary Pickford as "Rosita." Scenes include street in a Spanish village, group of Moors, and Spanish court of Phillip II.
Frances Benjamin Johnston's collection of works by other photographers, ca. 1890-1910
Creator(s): Farnsworth, Emma Justine, photographer; Morrison, W. H. (William H.), photographer; Purington, C. N., photographer; Schaafe, C. H., photographer; Tomlinson, C., photographer.
Related Name: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector.
Call No.: LOT 12371 (F)
Extent: 104 photoprints : 99 gelatin silver, 5 cyanotype ; 17 x 21 cm. or smaller and 4 photomechanical prints ; 20 x 25 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes pastoral scenes with adult and child models, portraits of men in theatrical roles, posed portrait of American Indian couple, San Juan Mountains in Colo., unidentified landscapes and paintings.
Arranged alphabetically by photographer; unidentified photographers filed at the end.
Katagami stencils, between ca. 1900 and 1952
Related Name: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector.
Call No.: LOT 12550 (H)
Extent: 76 items ; 34 x 44 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Stencils used for making patterns on kimonos. Includes floral, geometric, and abstract designs cut into oiled brown paper. Most do not appear to have been used.
Architectural drawings of Arts Club of Washington, Washington, D.C., Greentree House, and unidentified building, 1937
Related Name: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector.
Call No.: LOT 12551 (H)
Extent: 8 drawings on tracing paper : pencil and graphite ; 37 x 67 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Floor plans for Arts Club of Washington. Plans for alterations to Greentree House. Elevation for unidentified building. (Greentree House possibly located in Washington, D.C. Johnston resided at the Arts Club.)
Browsing Files
Johnston donated prints that have been interfiled in the following series available in the Prints and Photographs Reading Room: Biographical File (BIOG FILE), Presidential File (PRES FILE), U.S. Geographical File (U.S. GEOG FILE), and Specific Subject File (SSF). There is no comprehensive list but some items are identified in our Online Catalog as belonging to the Frances Benjamin Johnston photograph collection.
Photographs (individually cataloged)
Interfiled in the PH filing series: approximately 60 art photographs, primarily by women photographers, brought together by Frances Benjamin Johnston for display at the work of American women in photography at the Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 in Paris, France, and in Moscow. Additional artistic photographs are in LOT 3222.
Ambrotypes, Tintypes, Daguerreotypes
Three unidentified women, two seated, one standing, facing front, between 1840 and 1860
Call No.: DAG no. 1120
Extent: 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype.
Clark sisters, five women, three-quarter length portraits, all facing front, between 1840 and 1860
Call No.: DAG no. 1122
Extent: 1 photograph : half plate daguerreotype.
Note: Grandmother and aunts of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston including: Aunt Harriet Allen, Aunt Ladonna Hoy, Grandma Joanette C-B, Aunt Julia Millard, Aunt Laura.
Benjamin family group portrait, posed around a column, between 1845 and 1858
Call No.: DAG no. 1123
Extent: 1 photograph : half-plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
Note: From left to right: Cornelia Juliaette, Zina Hitchcock, Frances Antoinette, Samuel Clark, and Joanette.
Group portrait of two unidentified girls, three-quarter length, seated, facing front, between 1840 and 1860
Call No.: DAG no. 1128
Extent: 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
Joannette Clark Benjamin, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, facing front, seated, between 1840 and 1860
Call No.: DAG no. 1129
Extent: 1 photograph : sixth plate daguerreotype, hand-colored.
Joanette Clark Benjamin and Zina Hitchcock Benjamin, between 1860 and 1865
Call No.: AMB/TIN no. 1121
Extent: 1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype ; 9.5 x 8.2 cm (case)
Unidentified man sitting in chair, between 1860 and 1880
Call No.: AMB/TIN no. 1124
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