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• Title: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston
• Related Names:
     Frances Benjamin Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress)
• Date Created/Published: ca. 1870-ca. 1950, bulk 1894-1900.
• Medium: 147 photographic prints ; 46 x 36 cm. or smaller.
  1 album (21 cyanotypes) ; 14 x 25 cm. (album)
• Summary: Artistic photographs by approximately 50 photographers (primarily women), collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Some of the photographs were exhibited as the work of American women in photography at the Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 in Paris, France, and in Moscow. Includes character studies of adults, children, and mothers with children; people posed in historical-style costumes or enacting scenes; genre scenes; portraits; landscapes; book illustrations, and a photograph album of Old Deerfield, Mass. Pictorialist and other photographic styles are represented. Most photographs are on original mounts with many having a label affixed by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Rights Advisory: Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For more information see: "Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection,"(https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.279.john)
  
• Access Advisory: For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog to preserve the fragile original items.
• Call Number: LOT 3222 (H) (Use Digital Images) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by photographer with some unidentified. Some of the photographs are filed as part of the PH series.
  • Photos primarily by women, both amateurs and professionals; many were displayed by Johnston in Paris and Moscow, ca. 1900, as the work of American women in photography. Other works of women photographers collected by Johnston are filed in P&P Master Photographs filing series.
  • Title devised by Library staff.
  • Some signed by photographer; some photos bear penned or pencilled captions.
  • See Prints & Photographs Online Catalog (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pphome.html) for item-level records and names of individual photographers.
  • Digitized images of these items display with associated descriptions in the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
  • Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948.
  • Finding aid available online https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/eadpnp.pp021014
  • A preliminary paper finding aid is available in the Prints & Photographs Reading Room, filed by LOT number.
  • Many photographs published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001.
  • Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
• Subjects:
  • Women--1870-1940.
  • Children--1870-1950.
  • Women & children--1870-1940.
• Format:
  • Albumen prints--1890.
  • Amateur works--1870-1950.
  • Carbon prints--1870-1900.
  • Cyanotypes--1900.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1880-1940.
  • Genre photographs--1890-1920.
  • Group portraits--1870-1950.
  • Gum bichromate--1900.
  • Halftone photomechanical prints--1900.
  • Kallitypes--1900-1910.
  • Landscape photographs--1870-1920.
  • Palladium prints--1910-1920.
  • Pamphlets--1900.
  • Photogravures--1900.
  • Photomechanical prints--1890-1900.
  • Platinum prints--1890-1950.
  • Portrait photographs--1870-1950.
  • Posters--1890-1900.
  • Salted paper prints--18990-1900.
• Collections:
  • Groups of Images (LOTs)
• Part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress)
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• Rights Advisory: Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For more information see: "Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection," https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.279.john
• Reproduction Number: ---
• Call Number: LOT 3222 (H) (Use Digital Images) [P&P]
• Medium: 147 photographic prints ; 46 x 36 cm. or smaller.
  1 album (21 cyanotypes) ; 14 x 25 cm. (album)

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• Call Number: LOT 3222 (H) (Use Digital Images) [P&P]
• Medium: 147 photographic prints ; 46 x 36 cm. or smaller.
  1 album (21 cyanotypes) ; 14 x 25 cm. (album)
• Access Advisory: For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog to preserve the fragile original items.

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