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)

Susan B. Anthony, photograph taken by Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1900

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1854-1951), was one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer. c. 1925

Eva Gamble Walborn (b. 1874), an American women photographer in the circle of Frances Benjamin Johnston. She was included in Johnston's lectures, 'American Women Photographers in 1900.'

Alice Roosevelt (1884-1980), wearing fashionable lace dress and flowers in her hair. 1903 portrait by Frances Benjamin Johnston

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