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Frances Benjamin Johnston - The manger - Public domain portrait
Summary
Print shows a woman, dressed as the Virgin Mary, posed as though breast feeding the infant Jesus.
In portfolio: American pictorial photography, series 2, plate 2.
Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948.
Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 159.
Exhibited: Ambassadors of progress, 2001-2003.
Original negative, created 1899, is LC-K2-24.
Tags
Date
01/01/1900
Contributors
Käsebier, Gertrude, 1852-1934, photographer
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on publication
