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- Collection: Guide Records
Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress)
- Title: Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress)
- Other Title:
Frances Benjamin 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. - Date Created/Published: ca. 1864-ca. 1947, bulk 1897-1927.
- Medium: ca. 25,000 items.
- Summary: Primarily photographs by Johnston, including portraits of prominent Americans, foreign dignitaries, and members of Washington, D.C., social and political circles. Photojournalistic coverage of American politics & government, industry, social conditions, and events, ca. 1890-1913. Architecture in the United States, concentrating on the South, Mid-Atlantic, New England, and the Pacific Coast, ca. 1913-1940. Travels in Europe, Middle East, Bermuda, and across the United States, ca. 1899-1922. Also includes material collected by Johnston, such as artistic photos by other photographers, family photos, albums, graphic ephemera, and architectural and watercolor drawings.
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4840 USA
- Notes:
- Arrangement: Organized into over 110 groups (LOTS); Arrangement: Arranged by subject and cataloged with a (710) 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.
- One of the first women to achieve prominence as a photographer, Johnston opened a studio in Washington, D.C., in 1890, carrying out portrait and photojournalism assignments. 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- Finding aid (unpublished): Additional information available in unpublished general finding aid filed in Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room Reference File under "Johnston".
- 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).
- A few are copyright deposits; Frances Benjamin Johnston.
- 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.
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- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Medium: ca. 25,000 items.
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- Call Number: Guide Record [P&P]
- Medium: ca. 25,000 items.
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