johnston frances benjamin collection

North view of the President's house in the city of Washington

Photo from neg. by Frances Benjamin Johnston of drawing by Benjamin Latrobe, ca. 1810. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collecti... more

[Joannette Clark Benjamin, three-quarter length portrait of a woman, f...

Possibly maternal grandmother of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. Photographer unidentified. Case: Rinhart 133. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Libra... more

[Clark sisters, five women, three-quarter length portraits, all facing...

Grandmother and aunts of photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston. Photographer unidentified. Hallmark: 40. Case: Rinhart 63. Accompanying note in case on stationery of the Arts Club of Washington, in handwriting... more

[Group portrait of two unidentified girls, three-quarter length, seate...

Possibly Frances Benjamin Johnston's mother, right, and aunt, left. Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, plain leather with a central metal lozenge. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: France... more

[Three unidentified women, two seated, one standing, facing front]

Photographer unidentified. Case: back only, plain leather. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Li... more

Whitemarsh Hall, Phila., Pa.

Interior showing staircase and statue of woman and cupid. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.

[Zina Hitchcock Benjamin, Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandfa...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Zina Hitchcock Benjamin, Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandfa...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Mr. Zina Hitchcock Benjamin family, posed left to right: Cornelia, Zi...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Cyanotype of a daguerreotype made between 1845 and 1858 (DAG - no. 1123). No. 8317.

[Portrait of ten men including Anderson D. Johnston (seated second fro...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Dr. Wm. Bryant Johnston, Germantown, Kentucky

Dr. William Bryant Johnston, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Little Mollie Garfield & her father

James Garfield, full-length portrait, seated, facing right, with daughter Mollie at his knee. No. 4. Copy of Brady original photograph. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952

Head and shoulders, facing front; as a young girl. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Photoprint by Brady Studio. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf.

To a Greek girl

Photograph shows a young woman dressed in a classically-inspired gown, holding a lyre as if playing it. Used as illustration of an Austin Dobson poem of the same title published in In Arcadia / Emma Justine Far... more

[Office in Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Washington, D.C.]

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, standing in garden, ...

Halftone reproduction of photograph by Gertrude Käsebier.

[27 men and women (Johnston family) in front of beach house "Dartmouth...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.

[Joanette Clark Benjamin, Frances Benjamin Johnston's maternal grandmo...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, standing at edge of ...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, seated, facing left,...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[George Bancroft, 1800-1891, half-length portrait, seated at desk in l...

Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, seated in profile at left, group portrait ...

Group portrait including Frances Benjamin Johnston, possibly the jury for an exhibit of photographs in New York or Washington, D.C. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Pageant participants costumed as Pilgrims and Natives, posed beneath ...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[2 young women, mother and aunt of Frances Benjamin Johnston]

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection.

[Men, women, and children in bathing suits on dock, sailboats, and in ...

Title and other information transcribed from unverified, old caption card data and item. cf. America's Yesterdays, pp. 322-323. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: BI; Sailboats; Bathing beaches.

A New England sibyl

Photograph shows Judith Allen (1811-1890), aunt of the Allen sisters, seated in a chair, reading a large book. Published title. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the ... more

The Garfield children

Full-length group portrait of James Garfield's children, from left, Mollie, Harry, James, Irving, and Abe. No. 5. Copy of Brady original photograph. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library ... more

[Three Treasury Department employees, Mr. Steele(?) and two other men,...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Two Treasury Department employees seated at desk in office]

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Three Treasury Department employees, Mr. Graham, John Brown, and anot...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

White House employees

Three men and a woman in office. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LC-J698-8671.

[Mr. McClelland(?), Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Three Treasury Department employees in office]

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Dr. Miller, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seate...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Dr. Miller, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, seate...

On verso: Miss Johnston, Washington, D.C. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Gen. Shelley, Treasury Department employee, half-length portrait, sea...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Gen. Shelley, Auditor Navy, Treasury Department employee, half-length...

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Group crossing footbridge with cameras

Photograph showing two men carrying cameras and tripods assisting a woman across a log footbridge. LC-J682-113. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Academie Julian, Paris, group of art students

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Gardens for a Beautiful America / Sam Watters. New York : Acanthus Press, 2012. Figure 2a.

[Frances Benjamin Johnston (front), with Mills Thompson (left) and Fra...

LC-J698-100006. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Man posed on rocks, nude, playing pipe (Pan)]

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Gypsy encampment Glenwood Road

Men, women, and children with tent and wagon on Glenwood Road, probably in Bethesda, Maryland. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. No. 42.

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, sitting on ledge wit...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincent Virga and curators of the Library of Congress ; historical commenta... more

[Frances Benjamin Johnston on a balcony of the State, War and Navy Bui...

Photograph shows Johnston working at her camera preparing to take a picture. This proof print includes the shadow cast by the photographer capturing the scene. Title devised by Library staff. Forms part of: Fra... more

Pinkey & the camera

Frances Benjamin Johnston on a balcony of the State, War and Navy Building with a tripod-mounted camera. In album: Pinkey's blue book, or, The indigo agonies of a photographic amateur, title page. Forms part of... more

[Frances Benjamin Johnston with camera on balcony of State, War and Na...

Same image used on title page of album, Pinkey's blue book, LOT 2763.

Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952

Full lgth., standing, facing right. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf.

Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952

Full lgth., seated, facing right. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf.

Machinery ahead of art - The portrait taker - The portrait painter

Cartoon from newspaper(?) portraying photographer as being well-to-do and painter as being poverty-stricken. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952

Full lgth., seated, facing right; head resting on left hand. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; BI; Shelf.

Dr. John Scott Mrs. Harrison's father, aged 89, at work in the Pension...

Dr. John Scott working at a desk in the Pension Office. In album: Pinkey's blue book, or, The indigo agonies of a photographic amateur, no. 17. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Riggs Bank - the Dept. of Justice for A.P.A.

Photograph shows the north side of the 1500 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., with Riggs Bank (no. 1501) at right, and the Department of Justice building (formerly the Freedman's Savings and... more

Don M. Dickson - Postmaster General, 1887-1889

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Plan of first floor of the Executive Mansion

No. 81240.

White House orchids

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Fashion gleanings from abroad

Dresses, hats, jackets, and other fashions for women and children. Illus in: Demorest's family magazine, December, 1889, p. 124. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress)

The "President's own" in waiting as escort at the White House

Mounted cavalry outside White House.

[White House office, Washington, D.C.]

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J698-81345.

The babes of the White House / photographed by Miss Johnston, Washingt...

Mrs. McKee, Mary Lodge McKee, Marthena Harrison, Mrs. Russell Harrison, and Baby McKee (Benjamin Harrison McKee), seated around table. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Copyrighted by ... more

White House, 1889--Easter Monday

Crowd of people around pool, with the White House in background. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J682-5.

Red Room of the White House [corner]

No. 81285.

The office lobby in the White House

Three men in the lobby. No. 81343.

Looking seaward / Myra A. Wiggins, 1889.

Photograph shows a man standing on a rock outcropping on beach while looking toward a body of water. Title from item. Signed on mount. Formerly filed in P&P LOT 3222. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collect... more

Bureau of Engraving and Printing, Wash., D.C

Auditor's building. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Cabinet room, figures

Photograph shows two men standing around a table in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. Title from negative sleeve. Date from negative sleeve. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston collecti... more

White House--Major Russell Harrison and Harrison children--Baby McKee ...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 587. Published in: Presidential Pets / Niall Kelly (1992), p. 45. Original negative: LC-J698-81266.

[Women operating machinery at the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, Wa...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress)

White House employee

Employee seated at desk, half-length portrait, facing right. No. 8665.

[Women painting at easels in a class at the Art Students League, Washi...

Reference print made by the Library of Congress is in LOT 11734-6. Title devised by Library staff. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: Gardens for a Beautifu... more

White House employees

Three men and a woman seated at desks. No. 8671.

White House orchids

Conservatory.

[Plan of the second floor of the White House]

White House orchids

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

White House, east corridor

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Original negative may be available: LC-J698-81347

Conservatory of White House

No. 81319.

[Dining(?) room in the White House, Washington, D.C.]

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

White House, Conservatory

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). LC-J698-81320.

White House State Dining Room / Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. No. 15.

[Part of exterior view of Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, Wa...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. No. 874.

Barber House ("Belmont"), Washington, D.C.

Stairway bottom, showing large tapestry. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Tapestry; Interior... more

John Marshall Harlan, 1833-1911

Assoc. Justice, Supreme Court, half length portrait, facing left. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tra... more

Benjamin Constant

half length portrait of the artist, seated, facing right. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 6187. Caption card t... more

[Ida S. McKinley, full-length portrait, standing, facing front]

No. 8561. Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

Charles James Faulkner

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 46651.

Miss Barney

Half-length portrait, standing, facing right, wearing diamond printed dress with large sleeves, feathered hat. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Colle... more

[Mrs. John B. Henderson, half-length portrait, facing slightly left]

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Photograph of painting of Mary F. (Mary Foote) Henderson (1842-1931) by Benjamin Constant.

[Frances Benjamin Johnston seated with three other people in automobil...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Science class in Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, Washington...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. No. 894.

[Interior of Parker Mann house, Washington, D.C. - room filled with pa...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item, with subsequent revisions. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Ph. Ind.; Interiors; Art... more

[One child aiming camera, on bench, at another child, Washington, D.C....

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Wash. (D.C.) Misc. Children and photography; Children; ... more

Washington, D.C. Mount Vernon Seminary - girls in swimming pool

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 386. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Univ.; Seminary; Women; Ph. Ind.

Miss Alice Hay

Photograph shows three-quarter length portrait of Alice Hay (Mrs. James Wolcott Wadsworth), seated in chair, facing front. She was the daughter of ambassador and statesman John Milton Hay. Title from negative s... more

Library in Hearst home

Phoebe Apperson Hearst, widow of Sen. George Hearst, Washington, D.C. Cf. "America's Yesterdays," pp. 128-129. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Colle... more

[Mrs. Elizabeth Cameron, full-length portrait, seated, facing front]

Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Portrait of man, head-and shoulders, facing right]

Same man as in LC-USZ62-47074: C.C. Jones? Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).

[Scientific(?) instrument on table in room at Georgetown Visitation Pr...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. No. 885.

[Barber house, Washington, D.C. - bedroom]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 8972. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Geog.; Interiors.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth photographs presentation display

Composite of 10 photoprints of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: L... more

[Barber house, Washington, D.C. - bedroom]

Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). No. 8977. Caption card tracings: B.I.; Geog.; Interiors.

[Joel Chandler Harris, three-quarter-length portrait, standing, facing...

Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. No. 7.