Category:Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress)

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English: The Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress includes photographs by Johnston as well as works she collected by other artists.

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer. Trained at the Académie Julian in Paris, she studied photography upon her return to Washington, D.C., in the mid-1880s and opened a professional studio circa 1890. Her family's social position gave Johnston access to the First Family and leading Washington political figures and launched her career as a photojournalist and portrait photographer. Johnston turned to garden and estate photography in 1910s.

Through copyright deposits, gifts of the photographer and the purchase of material from her estate, the Prints and Photographs Division of the Library of Congress has formed an extensive collection of Johnston's documentary assignments and architectural studies. The portion of the collection that is presented online in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection category are individual photographs for which copy negatives or digital files exist. This represents a small cross-section of the entire Johnston collection, which consists of an estimated 20,000 photographic prints and 3,700 glass and film negatives. (Most of the photographic prints have been grouped by subject matter into groups (LOTs). Catalog records describing those groups are available through the Groups of Images in High Demand category).

Images in the collection span the period 1850-1949, but the majority date between 1897 and 1927. The collection also includes photographs collected by Johnston, including images of family and friends and works by other women photographers.

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