Photograph, Print, or Drawing[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, seated in front of fireplace, ...
Personal name
Main title
- [Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, seated in front of fireplace, facing left, holding cigarette in one hand and a beer stein in the other, in her Washington, D.C. studio] [graphic].
Published/Created
- [1896]
Links
Links
- digital file from original item http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.38981 opens in a new window
- digital file from b&w film copy neg. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b11893 opens in a new window
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Description
- 1 photographic print mounted on layered paper: gelatin silver ; photo 19.7 x 15.7 cm, on mount 24.1 x 29.2 cm.
Rights advisory
- No known restrictions on publication.
LC classification
- LOT 11734-1 [item]
Summary
- In this self-portrait the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston poses as an independent 'new woman.' On the mantlepiece are six portraits she took of men (from left to right): poet Bliss Carman; A. N. Brown, likely the librarian at the U.S. Naval Academy; Henry Guston Rogers, likely the inventor and playwright Henry Gustave Rogers; architect James Rush Marshall; Smithsonian librarian Frank Phister; and L. M. McCormick, a photographer and member of the Capital Camera Club.
LC Subjects
Other Subjects
- Photographic studios--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
- Women--Clothing & dress--Washington (D.C.)--1890-1900.
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Notes
- Photographic print made by the Library.
- Title devised by Library staff.
- Exhibited: "Women Behaving Badly" at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore, Md., 21218, August 5, 2020 - January 31, 2021.
- Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
Reproduction no./Source
- LC-DIG-ppmsca-38981 DLC (digital file from original item)
- LC-USZ62-64301 DLC (b&w film copy neg.)
LCCN
- 98502934
Other system no.
- (DLC)11710626
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print opens in a new window
Type of material
- Photograph, Print, or Drawing
Content type
- still image
Media type
- unmediated
Carrier type
- sheet
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