Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 1842-1919, Photograph Number 3B11334R

By Johnston, Frances Benjamin

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Title:	Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 1842-1919, Photograph Number 3B11334R
Author:	Johnston, Frances Benjamin
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Language:	English
Subject:	Prints, Photographs, Historical
Collections:	Library of Congress Collection, Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection
Historic Publication Date:	1895
Publisher:	Library of Congress


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Description
Description: 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 opened a professional studio circa 1890. Her family's social position gave Johnston access to the First Family leading Washington political figures launched her career as a photojournalist portrait photographer. Johnston turned to garden estate photography in 1910s. [To learn more about Johnston, see the Biographical Overview Chronology.] Through copyright deposits, gifts of the photographer the purchase of material from her estate, the Prints Photographs Division has formed an extensive collection of Johnston's documentary assignments 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 3,700 glass 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 Dem category. [ retrieve Frances Benjamin Johnston LOT records]). Images in the collection span the period, 1850-1949, but the majority date between 1897 1927. Among the photographs from Johnston's early career are her coverage of American world's fairs; coal mining; the White House; openings of Congress; Admiral Dewey; Progressive era educational efforts, including a survey of Washington, D.C., schools such minority educational institutions as the Hampton Institute the Tuskegee Institute. The collection also includes photographs collected by Johnston, including images of family friends works by other women photographers. Johnston was one of the first contributors to the Library's Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture. With the support of the Carnegie Corporation, she also executed a systematic survey of southern architecture known as the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South. These two collections are considered to be separate from the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection, although the contents of the collections overlap to some degree. The Library's Manuscript Division holds Johnston's personal papers, spanning the years 1885 to 1953 consisting primarily of correspondence. Also included are memor a, articles, notes, the manuscript of her book Early Architecture of North Carolina (1941), miscellaneous material relating to her photography of southern architecture.

Summary
Full length portrait, seated, facing left.