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Photo, Print, Drawing Frances Benjamin Johnston's family, friends, and career

About this Item

Title

  • Frances Benjamin Johnston's family, friends, and career

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.

Names

  • Rice (Firm : Washington, D.C.), photographer
  • Frances Benjamin Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress)
  • Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector
  • Thompson, Mills, 1875-1944, artist
  • Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934, photographer
  • Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, photographer
  • C.M. Bell (Firm : Washington, D.C.), photographer

Created / Published

  • ca. 1870-ca. 1952, bulk ca. 1880-ca. 1930.

Headings

  • -  Johnston, Frances Benjamin,--1864-1952
  • -  Johnston Family
  • -  Académie Julian
  • -  Art Students League (Washington, D.C.)
  • -  Dwellings--Louisiana--New Orleans--1930-1960
  • -  Photographic studios--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1960
  • -  Photographers--1880-1960
  • -  Clubs--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1930
  • -  Art education--France--Paris--1880-1930
  • -  Art education--Washington (D.C.)--1880-1930
  • -  Families--1870-1960
  • -  Pets--1880-1960
  • -  Washington (D.C.)
  • -  Morganton (N.C.)
  • -  Innisfail (Alta.)

Headings

  • Albumen prints--1870-1930.
  • Boudoir card photographs--1870-1930.
  • Cabinet photographs--1870-1930.
  • Cartes de visite--1870-1930.
  • Clippings--1880-1930.
  • Cyanotypes--1870-1930.
  • Drawings--1880-1930.
  • Family trees--1880-1960.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1870-1960.
  • Group portraits--1870-1960.
  • Platinum prints--1880-1930.
  • Portrait photographs--1870-1960.
  • Tickets--1880-1930.
  • Tintypes--1870-1930.

Genre

  • Portrait photographs--1870-1960
  • Family trees--1880-1960
  • Group portraits--1870-1960
  • Tickets--1880-1930
  • Cabinet photographs--1870-1930
  • Boudoir card photographs--1870-1930
  • Cartes de visite--1870-1930
  • Tintypes--1870-1930
  • Albumen prints--1870-1930
  • Cyanotypes--1870-1930
  • Platinum prints--1880-1930
  • Gelatin silver prints--1870-1960
  • Drawings--1880-1930
  • Clippings--1880-1930

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Arranged by size and topic.
  • -  Title devised. Many photos captioned.
  • -  Many photos are by Johnston. Others bear logos of Brady (Brady's National Portrait Gallery), Rice, C.M. Bell, and other Washington, D.C., Baltimore, New York, Boston, Paris, and London photographers. One photo by Gertrude Käsebier. One drawing and one reproduction of poster designed by Mills Thompson.
  • -  Includes images printed from the same negative by different processes.
  • -  Seventy-seven albumen photoprints on boudoir, cabinet card, or cartes de visite mounts.
  • -  One hundred twenty-nine are photos made by the Library of Congress Photoduplication Service from original glass and nitrate negatives primarily in series LC-J68, J685, J691, J698, and J713.
  • -  Accompanied by clippings, tickets, correspondence, and notes relating to Johnston family history.
  • -  Gift and purchase, Frances Benjamin Johnston estate, 1953?
  • -  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.
  • -  Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Medium

  • 610 photographic prints : 400 gelatin silver, 128 cyanotype, 82 albumen ; 36 x 29 cm. or smaller.
  • 16 photographs : tintype ; 13 x 8 cm. or smaller.
  • 3 drawings : 35 x 28 cm. or smaller.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 11734 (G) (H) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Frances Benjamin Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress)

Repository

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 87707817

Rights Advisory

Online Format

  • image

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  • Call Number: LOT 11734 (G) (H) [P&P]
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Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection, Frances Benjamin Johnston, and Mills Thompson, Rice, Gertrude Käsebier, Brady'S National Photographic Portrait Galleries, and C.M. Bell, photographer. Frances Benjamin Johnston's family, friends, and career. Innisfail France Morganton New Orleans North Carolina Alta Paris Louisiana Washington D.C, None. ca. 1870-ca. 1952, bulk ca. 1880-ca. 1930. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/87707817/.

APA citation style:

Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection, Johnston, F. B. & Thompson, M., Rice, Käsebier, G., Brady'S National Photographic Portrait Galleries & C.M. Bell, photographer. Frances Benjamin Johnston's family, friends, and career. Innisfail France Morganton New Orleans North Carolina Alta Paris Louisiana Washington D.C, None. ca. 1870-ca. 1952, bulk ca. 1880-ca. 1930. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/87707817/.

MLA citation style:

Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection, Frances Benjamin Johnston, and Mills Thompson, photographers by Rice, et al. Frances Benjamin Johnston's family, friends, and career. ca. 1870-ca. 1952, bulk ca. 1880-ca. 1930. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/87707817/>.