Johnston, Frances Benjamin (1864-1952)

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Name: Johnston, Frances Benjamin (1864-1952)
Nationality: American
Biography: Johnston was the first recognized female press photographer in the United States. She was associated with the Photo-Secession and the Camera Club on New York. In 1909, Johnston began a series of photographs documenting historic buildings and gardens in the southern United States. American photographer.

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Class in English or penmanship, Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1901 (b/w photo)

Edith Wharton's French villa at St. Brice-sous-Forêt, with garden in foreground. 1925 photograph by Frances Benjamin Johnston

The signing of the Protocol of Peace, 1898 (b/w photo)

Self-portrait, c.1890 (b/w photo)

President Roosevelt, 1902 (b/w photo)

Carlisle Indian School, Carlisle, Pa. Class in Government, 1901 (b/w photo)

Opening of 59th Congress, 1906 (b/w photo)

Thanksgiving Day lesson at Whittier, 1899 (photo)

Edith et Quentin Roosevelt: First Lady Edith Roosevelt, with youngest son, Quentin, in a 1903 portrait by Frances Benjamin Johnston.

Alice Roosevelt, 1903 (photo)

Frances Benjamin Johnston selling tintypes at a Virginia County fair, May 1903 (b/w photo)

Young women reading in library of a Washington, D.C. normal schools that trained elementary-school teachers. 1900 photography by Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection

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