Frances Benjamin Johnston papers,
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952.
Frances Benjamin Johnston papers, 1855-1956 (bulk 1890-1945). - 19,000 items. 50 containers plus 1 oversize. 37 microfilm reels. 21.2 linear feet. - Arranged in 9 series. Series 1: Diaries, 1890-1942; Series 2: Family Correspondence, 1883-1951; Series 3: General Correspondence, 1882-1953; Series 4: Special Correspondence, 1900; Series 5: Speeches and Writings File, 1907-1946; Series 6: Financial Papers, 1890-1952; Series 7: Miscellany, 1855-1951; Series 8: Addition, 1898-1956; and Series 9: Oversize, 1899-1954.
Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial papers, family papers, clippings, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Johnston's career as a photographer of national figures and events (1889-1910), her photography of gardens and estates (1913-1926), and her compilation of a photographic record of Southern colonial architecture (1927-1952). Includes material relating to her involvement in the Pictorialist movement; work for Ladies' Home Journal, McClure's, and Town & Country magazines; participation in international exhibitions in Chicago (1893), Paris (1900), Buffalo (1901), and St. Louis (1904); travels in Europe; her studios in Washington, D.C., and New York, N.Y., the latter in partnership with Mattie Edwards Hewitt; and the emerging role of women in the profession of photography. Family members represented include Johnston's aunt, Cornelia Benjamin Hagan, and her mother, Frances Antoinette Benjamin Johnston. Correspondents include Henry Adams, Nellie Allen, George Grantham Bain, Charles I. Berg, Edward William Bok, William Lawrence Bottomley, Zelda Branch, H.I. Brock, Elizabeth Cameron, Edmund S. Campbell, Bliss Carman, Jo Hubbard Chamberlin, Frances Folsom Cleveland, George B. Cortelyou, Paul Philippe Cret, Theodore Dreiser, George Eastman, Hollis Burke Frissell, Walter Gay, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, A. Horsley Hinton, Leicester Bodine Holland, Joseph C. Hornblower, B.F. Johnson, Gertrude Käsebier, Frederick P. Keppel, Hans Kindler, Clara E. Laughlin, Waldo Gifford Leland, Antoine Lumière, James Rush Marshall, Charles Follen McKim, John C. Merriam, Margaret Mitchell, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, Augusta Owen Patterson, Edward Penfield, Ethel Reed, Eva Watson Schütze, Alfred Stieglitz, Ida M. Tarbell, Mills Thompson, John Wanamaker, Catharine Weed Barnes Ward, H. Snowden Ward, Thomas Tileston Waterman, H.J. Whigham, Waddy B. Wood, and Walter E. Woodbury.
Photographs
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
retained by
Portrait photographer, photojournalist, architectural photographer, and illustrator.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010298
mm 79027995
Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 --Correspondence.
Allen, Nellie--Correspondence.
Bain, George Grantham, 1865-1944 --Correspondence.
Berg, Charles I., 1856-1926 --Correspondence.
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 --Correspondence.
Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951 --Correspondence.
Branch, Zelda--Correspondence.
Brock, H. I. 1876-1961 --Correspondence.
Cameron, Elizabeth, 1857-1944 --Correspondence.
Campbell, Edmund S. 1884-1950 --Correspondence.
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 --Correspondence.
Chamberlin, Jo Hubbard--Correspondence.
Cleveland, Frances Folsom, 1864-1947 --Correspondence.
Cortelyou, George B. 1862-1940 --Correspondence.
Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945 --Correspondence.
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 --Correspondence.
Eastman, George, 1854-1932 --Correspondence.
Frissell, Hollis Burke, 1851-1917 --Correspondence.
Gay, Walter, 1856-1937 --Correspondence.
Hagan, Cornelia Benjamin.
Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919 --Correspondence.
Hewitt, Mattie Edwards, 1869-1956.
Hinton, A. Horsley 1863-1908 --Correspondence.
Holland, Leicester Bodine, 1882-1952 --Correspondence.
Hornblower, Joseph C. 1848-1908 --Correspondence.
Johnson, B. F. 1856-1921 --Correspondence.
Johnston, Frances Antoinette Benjamin.
Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934 --Correspondence.
Keppel, Frederick P. 1875-1943 --Correspondence.
Kindler, Hans, 1892-1949 --Correspondence.
Laughlin, Clara E. 1873-1941 --Correspondence.
Leland, Waldo Gifford, 1879-1966 --Correspondence.
Lumière, Antoine, 1842-1911 --Correspondence.
Marshall, James Rush, 1851-1927 --Correspondence.
McKim, Charles Follen, 1847-1909 --Correspondence.
Merriam, 1869-1945 --Correspondence.
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 --Correspondence.
Moore, Charles, 1855-1942 --Correspondence.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 --Correspondence.
Patterson, Augusta Owen--Correspondence.
Penfield, Edward, 1866-1925 --Correspondence.
Reed, Ethel--Correspondence.
Schütze, Eva Watson, 1867-1935 --Correspondence.
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 --Correspondence.
Tarbell, Ida M. 1857-1944 --Correspondence.
Thompson, Mills, 1875-1944 --Correspondence.
Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922 --Correspondence.
Ward, Catharine Weed Barnes, 1851-1913.
Ward, H. Snowden 1865-1911 --Correspondence.
Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951 --Correspondence.
Whigham, H. J. 1869-1954 --Correspondence.
Wood, Waddy B. 1869-1944 --Correspondence.
Woodbury, Walter E.--Correspondence.
Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France)
Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis, Mo.) (1904 :
Pan-American Exposition Buffalo, N.Y.) (1901 :
World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, Ill.) (1893 :
Ladies' home journal.
McClure's magazine.
Town & country (New York, N.Y.)
Architectural photography--United States.
Architecture--Southern States.
Architecture--United States.
Gardens--United States.
Photography.
Photography--United States.
Photography--Studios and dark rooms.
Photography, Artistic.
Photojournalism--United States.
Pictorialism (Photography movement)
Portrait photography--United States.
Women photographers.
United States--History--1865-1921.
United States--Social life and customs--1865-1918.
Illustrators.
Photographers.
Frances Benjamin Johnston papers, 1855-1956 (bulk 1890-1945). - 19,000 items. 50 containers plus 1 oversize. 37 microfilm reels. 21.2 linear feet. - Arranged in 9 series. Series 1: Diaries, 1890-1942; Series 2: Family Correspondence, 1883-1951; Series 3: General Correspondence, 1882-1953; Series 4: Special Correspondence, 1900; Series 5: Speeches and Writings File, 1907-1946; Series 6: Financial Papers, 1890-1952; Series 7: Miscellany, 1855-1951; Series 8: Addition, 1898-1956; and Series 9: Oversize, 1899-1954.
Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
Correspondence, diaries, speeches and writings, financial papers, family papers, clippings, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Johnston's career as a photographer of national figures and events (1889-1910), her photography of gardens and estates (1913-1926), and her compilation of a photographic record of Southern colonial architecture (1927-1952). Includes material relating to her involvement in the Pictorialist movement; work for Ladies' Home Journal, McClure's, and Town & Country magazines; participation in international exhibitions in Chicago (1893), Paris (1900), Buffalo (1901), and St. Louis (1904); travels in Europe; her studios in Washington, D.C., and New York, N.Y., the latter in partnership with Mattie Edwards Hewitt; and the emerging role of women in the profession of photography. Family members represented include Johnston's aunt, Cornelia Benjamin Hagan, and her mother, Frances Antoinette Benjamin Johnston. Correspondents include Henry Adams, Nellie Allen, George Grantham Bain, Charles I. Berg, Edward William Bok, William Lawrence Bottomley, Zelda Branch, H.I. Brock, Elizabeth Cameron, Edmund S. Campbell, Bliss Carman, Jo Hubbard Chamberlin, Frances Folsom Cleveland, George B. Cortelyou, Paul Philippe Cret, Theodore Dreiser, George Eastman, Hollis Burke Frissell, Walter Gay, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, A. Horsley Hinton, Leicester Bodine Holland, Joseph C. Hornblower, B.F. Johnson, Gertrude Käsebier, Frederick P. Keppel, Hans Kindler, Clara E. Laughlin, Waldo Gifford Leland, Antoine Lumière, James Rush Marshall, Charles Follen McKim, John C. Merriam, Margaret Mitchell, Charles Moore, Frederick Law Olmsted, Augusta Owen Patterson, Edward Penfield, Ethel Reed, Eva Watson Schütze, Alfred Stieglitz, Ida M. Tarbell, Mills Thompson, John Wanamaker, Catharine Weed Barnes Ward, H. Snowden Ward, Thomas Tileston Waterman, H.J. Whigham, Waddy B. Wood, and Walter E. Woodbury.
Photographs
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.
retained by
Portrait photographer, photojournalist, architectural photographer, and illustrator.
Collection material in English.
Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010298
mm 79027995
Adams, Henry, 1838-1918 --Correspondence.
Allen, Nellie--Correspondence.
Bain, George Grantham, 1865-1944 --Correspondence.
Berg, Charles I., 1856-1926 --Correspondence.
Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930 --Correspondence.
Bottomley, William Lawrence, 1883-1951 --Correspondence.
Branch, Zelda--Correspondence.
Brock, H. I. 1876-1961 --Correspondence.
Cameron, Elizabeth, 1857-1944 --Correspondence.
Campbell, Edmund S. 1884-1950 --Correspondence.
Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 --Correspondence.
Chamberlin, Jo Hubbard--Correspondence.
Cleveland, Frances Folsom, 1864-1947 --Correspondence.
Cortelyou, George B. 1862-1940 --Correspondence.
Cret, Paul Philippe, 1876-1945 --Correspondence.
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 --Correspondence.
Eastman, George, 1854-1932 --Correspondence.
Frissell, Hollis Burke, 1851-1917 --Correspondence.
Gay, Walter, 1856-1937 --Correspondence.
Hagan, Cornelia Benjamin.
Hearst, Phoebe Apperson, 1842-1919 --Correspondence.
Hewitt, Mattie Edwards, 1869-1956.
Hinton, A. Horsley 1863-1908 --Correspondence.
Holland, Leicester Bodine, 1882-1952 --Correspondence.
Hornblower, Joseph C. 1848-1908 --Correspondence.
Johnson, B. F. 1856-1921 --Correspondence.
Johnston, Frances Antoinette Benjamin.
Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934 --Correspondence.
Keppel, Frederick P. 1875-1943 --Correspondence.
Kindler, Hans, 1892-1949 --Correspondence.
Laughlin, Clara E. 1873-1941 --Correspondence.
Leland, Waldo Gifford, 1879-1966 --Correspondence.
Lumière, Antoine, 1842-1911 --Correspondence.
Marshall, James Rush, 1851-1927 --Correspondence.
McKim, Charles Follen, 1847-1909 --Correspondence.
Merriam, 1869-1945 --Correspondence.
Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949 --Correspondence.
Moore, Charles, 1855-1942 --Correspondence.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903 --Correspondence.
Patterson, Augusta Owen--Correspondence.
Penfield, Edward, 1866-1925 --Correspondence.
Reed, Ethel--Correspondence.
Schütze, Eva Watson, 1867-1935 --Correspondence.
Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 --Correspondence.
Tarbell, Ida M. 1857-1944 --Correspondence.
Thompson, Mills, 1875-1944 --Correspondence.
Wanamaker, John, 1838-1922 --Correspondence.
Ward, Catharine Weed Barnes, 1851-1913.
Ward, H. Snowden 1865-1911 --Correspondence.
Waterman, Thomas Tileston, 1900-1951 --Correspondence.
Whigham, H. J. 1869-1954 --Correspondence.
Wood, Waddy B. 1869-1944 --Correspondence.
Woodbury, Walter E.--Correspondence.
Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France)
Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis, Mo.) (1904 :
Pan-American Exposition Buffalo, N.Y.) (1901 :
World's Columbian Exposition Chicago, Ill.) (1893 :
Ladies' home journal.
McClure's magazine.
Town & country (New York, N.Y.)
Architectural photography--United States.
Architecture--Southern States.
Architecture--United States.
Gardens--United States.
Photography.
Photography--United States.
Photography--Studios and dark rooms.
Photography, Artistic.
Photojournalism--United States.
Pictorialism (Photography movement)
Portrait photography--United States.
Women photographers.
United States--History--1865-1921.
United States--Social life and customs--1865-1918.
Illustrators.
Photographers.