Johnston, Frances Benjamin 1864-1952 creator mixed material monographic eng 19,000 50 37 21.2 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. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Microfilm edition available, no. 18,597. Photographs retained by Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division where they are identified as the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. 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 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. (Henry Irving) 1876-1961 Correspondence Cameron, Elizabeth 1857-1944 Correspondence Campbell, Edmund S. (Edmund Schureman) 1884-1950 Correspondence Carman, Bliss 1861-1929 Correspondence Chamberlin, Jo Hubbard Correspondence Cleveland, Frances Folsom 1864-1947 Correspondence Cortelyou, George B. (George Bruce) 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 (Alfred Horsley) 1863-1908 Correspondence Holland, Leicester Bodine 1882-1952 Correspondence Hornblower, Joseph C. (Joseph Coerten) 1848-1908 Correspondence Johnson, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) 1856-1921 Correspondence Johnston, Frances Antoinette Benjamin Käsebier, Gertrude 1852-1934 Correspondence Keppel, Frederick P. (Frederick Paul) 1875-1943 Correspondence Kindler, Hans 1892-1949 Correspondence Laughlin, Clara E. (Clara Elizabeth) 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, John C. (John Campbell) 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. (Ida Minerva) 1857-1944 Correspondence Thompson, Mills 1875-1944 Correspondence Wanamaker, John 1838-1922 Correspondence Ward, Catharine Weed Barnes 1851-1913 Ward, H. Snowden (Henry Snowden) 1865-1911 Correspondence Waterman, Thomas Tileston 1900-1951 Correspondence Whigham, H. J. (Henry James) 1869-1954 Correspondence Wood, Waddy B. (Waddy Butler) 1869-1944 Correspondence Woodbury, Walter E Correspondence Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France) Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : St. Louis, Mo.) Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.) World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 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 mm 79027995 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010298 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms010298.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010298 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010298.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 790807 20260227111656.0 mm 79027995 eng