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Frances Benjamin Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress)
- Title: Frances Benjamin Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress)
- Other Title:
Johnston photograph collection
FBJ collection - Creator(s): Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, collector
- Related Names:
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952. Papers of Frances Benjamin Johnston.
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952. Frances Benjamin Johnston papers, 1855-1956 - Date Created/Published: ca. 1864-ca. 1947, bulk 1897-1927.
- Medium:
whole collection ca. 25,000 items.
ca. 25,000 photographic prints, lantern slides, and other materials. - 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.
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
Publication may be restricted. For information see: "Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection Rights and Restrictions Information,"(https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.279.john)
- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Arrangement: Organized into over 118 groups (LOTS); Arrangement: Arranged by subject and cataloged with an added entry of "Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress)." Some material, including Johnston's original negatives, has been incorporated into filing series for special formats.
- Washingtoniana : photographs : collections in the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress / Kathleen Collins. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1989, pp. 125-133.
- Special Collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980, no. 131.
- Guide to the Special Collections of Prints and Photographs in the Library of Congress / compiled by Paul Vanderbilt. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Reference Department, 1955.
- Most are gift and purchase; Frances Benjamin Johnston and Johnston estate; 1905-1953.
- Some transferred from; LC Manuscript Division (Frances Benjamin Johnston Papers); 1982; (DLC/PP-1982:211).
- Some are a gift from; Anne E. Peterson; 2011; (DLC/PP-2011:206).
- A few are copyright deposits; Frances Benjamin Johnston.
- One of the first women to achieve prominence as a photographer, Frances Benjamin Johnston opened a studio in Washington, D.C., in 1890, carrying out portrait and photojournalism assignments while also contributing to art photography and pictorialism. She entered into partnership with Mattie Edwards Hewitt, operating a New York City studio that specialized in architectural and garden photography, 1913-1917. Continuing this emphasis, Johnston toured the United States giving lantern slide lectures on gardens and architecture and contributed to architectural surveys, including two separate collections: the Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture (1930) and the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (1933-1937).
- 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 under "Johnston."
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- Rights Advisory: Publication may be restricted. For information see: "Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection Rights and Restrictions Information," https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.279.john
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Medium:
whole collection ca. 25,000 items.
ca. 25,000 photographic prints, lantern slides, and other materials.
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- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Medium:
whole collection ca. 25,000 items.
ca. 25,000 photographic prints, lantern slides, and other materials.
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