Title Info Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection
Alternative Title Info HTML source title: Prints&Photographs Online Catalog - Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection - About
ListSets setName: Johnston (Frances Benjamin) collection (photographs)
ListSets title: Records for photographs in Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection digitized by the Library of Congress
Name Aquifer submitter Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign thabing@uiuc.edu Thomas Habing
Associated Project Aquifer American Social History Online http://www.diglib.org/aquifer/
Type Of Resource still image
Genre Photographs / slides / negatives
image
Group portraits
Landscape photographs
Portrait photographs
Origin Info Completely irregular
District of Columbia 20540 United States Library of Congress [National Library]
Language eng
Physical Description image/jpeg
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Abstract Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer. Trained at the Académie Julian in Paris, she studied photography upon her return to Washington, D.C., in the mid-1880s and opened a professional studio circa 1890. Her family's social position gave Johnston access to the First Family and leading Washington political figures and launched her career as a photojournalist and portrait photographer. Johnston turned to garden and estate photography in 1910s.
Through copyright deposits, gifts of the photographer and the purchase of material from her estate, the Prints and Photographs Division has formed an extensive collection of Johnston's documentary assignments and architectural studies. The portion of the collection that is presented online in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection category are individual photographs for which copy negatives or digital files exist. This represents a small cross-section of the entire Johnston collection, which consists of an estimated 20,000 photographic prints and 3,700 glass and film negatives. (Most of the photographic prints have been grouped by subject matter into groups (LOTs). Catalog records describing those groups are available through the Groups of Images in High Demand category. [retrieve Frances Benjamin Johnson LOT records]).
Images in the collection span the period, 1850-1949, but the majority date between 1897 and 1927. Among the photographs from Johnston's early career are her coverage of American world's fairs; coal mining; the White House; openings of Congress; Admiral Dewey; and Progressive era educational efforts, including a survey of Washington, D.C., schools and such minority educational institutions as the Hampton Institute and the Tuskegee Institute. The collection also includes photographs collected by Johnston, including images of family and friends and works by other women photographers.
Note Active Deposit, Donation, Purchase
The portion of the collection that is cataloged online represents photographs for which copy negatives or digital files exist.
Subject United States (nation)
Washington, D.C.
California
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
Colorado
Virginia
Middle 20th Century (1934-1967)
Early 20th Century (1901-1933)
Late 19th Century (1868-1900)
Modern (1701-present)
Women
Arts--Architecture
Arts--Photography
Social Studies--Economics
Social Studies--United States government
Arts
Social Studies
Architecture--United States--1910-1940.
Education--United States.
Hampton Institute--Photographs.
Industries--United States--1890-1920.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.)--Photographs.
Tuskegee Institute--Photographs.
United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)--Photographs.
United States--Economic conditions--1890-1920.
White House (Washington, D.C.)--Photographs.
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)--Photographs.
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952.
Women--Clothing & dress.
American Culture
Identifier http://dlf.grainger.uiuc.edu/DLFCollectionsRegistry/Collection/70899
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Location http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0?verb=ListRecords&set=fbj&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0?verb=ListRecords&set=fbj&metadataPrefix=mods
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/fbjhtml/fbjabt.html
Access Condition Access permitted; subject to Prints & Photographs Division policy on serving originals.
There are no known restrictions on the photographs in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
Record Info Records originated with the DLF Newsletter, 2000-2005, from which they were converted into a FileMaker database. The FileMaker DB was imported into a database system currently maintained by the Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Records for collections added after 2005 were created in this database as part of the Aquifer American Social History Online project. This database is currently being maintained as part of the Aquifer American Social History Online project. 2008-04-23 eng English Digital Library Federation (DLF) oai:dlfcollectionsregistry.grainger.uiuc.edu:70899
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