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1. Frances Benjamin Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress)

   25,000 items. -- Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Primarily photographs by Frances B. Johnston, including portraits of prominent Americans, foreign dignitaries, and members of Washington, D.C., social and political circles. As a photojournalist she provided stories for magazines about schools, industries, and such events as world's fairs, ca. 1890-1913. Architecture and gardens in the United States, concentrating on the South, Mid-Atlantic, New England, and the Pacific Coast, ca. 1910-1945. Travels in Europe, Middle East, Bermuda, and across the United States, ca. 1899-1925. Also includes material collected by Johnston, such as artistic photos primarily by women photographers, family photos, albums, graphic ephemera, and architectural and watercolor drawings.

2. Frances Benjamin Johnston papers, 1855-1956

   19,000 items. 50 containers plus 1 oversize. 21.2 linear feet. 37 microfilm reels. -- Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

   Summary:

   Photographer and illustrator. Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial papers, family papers, clippings, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Johnston's career as a photographer of national figures and events, her photography of gardens and estates, compilation of a photographic record of Southern colonial architecture, participation in international exhibitions, travels and personal life, and the emerging role of women in the profession of photography.