Frances Benjamin Johnston papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19000
Subjects: Correspondence; Social life and customs; Pan-American Exposition (1901 : Buffalo, N.Y.); Photojournalism; Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris, France); Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : St. Louis, Mo.); Portrait photography; Ladies' home journal; Photography; World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.); McClure's magazine; Architectural photography; Town & country (New York, N.Y.); Studios and dark rooms; Architecture; Gardens; Artistic Photography; Women photographers; Pictorialism (Photography movement); History
Description: 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.
Notes: Open to research.

Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.

Microfilm edition available, no. 18,597.

Transfer, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, 1960-2008.

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.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010298