Category: frances benjamin johnston

Frances Benjamin Johnston cats

Frances Benjamin Johnston’s cats, Herman and Vermin, seated on brick railing of New Orleans house, Louisiana, between 1945 and 1950. | src getty images

Johnston lantern slides of gardens

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) ~ the Drum bridge in the Japanese garden at Henry Edwards Huntington house, San Marino, California, 1923. Glass lantern slide (hand coloured) | src getty images
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) ~ Drumthwacket, Moses Taylor Pyne House, Princeton, New Jersey, 1911 [official residence of the governor of New Jersey]. Glass lantern slide | src getty images

Spring by Johnston (1903)

Frances Benjamin Johnston :: Spring (unknown model). Photogravure. From The Vollgros Collection of Masterpieces of American Photographs, Chicago, 1903. | src photoseed

Johnston at the seaside

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, standing at edge of ocean, in bathing suit, with left hand on boat, facing right]; 1880-1900 | src Library of Congress
Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, standing at edge of ocean, in bathing suit, with left hand on boat, facing right, ca. 1890 | src Library of Congress

Johnston as New Woman · 1896

Frances Benjamin Johnston ~ Self-portrait in the studio as a New Woman, 1896 (detail)

In this self-portrait the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston poses as an independent ‘new woman.’ On the mantelpiece 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. [quoted from Library of Congress] permalink

[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 DC studio], 1896

Johnston crossdressing ca. 1890

[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length self-portrait dressed as a man with false moustache, posed with bicycle, facing left]; 1890-1900
src Library of Congress
[Frances Benjamin Johnston (right), full-length self-portrait dressed as a man with false moustache, posed with two unidentified women, one of whom is also dressed as a man]; 1880-1900 | src Library of Congress

According to Shorpy ─in this website the photograph is titled “Reverso”─ Frances Benjamin Johnston is posing here with two similarly cross-dressing friends. The “lady” is a gent identified in a few other FBJ photos as the illustrator Mills Thompson.

Johnston · Driveways · 1930s

Frances Benjamin Johnston ~ Driveway looking away from William A. Dawson House, Mobile, Alabama, 1939 | Library of Congress
Frances Benjamin Johnston ~ Wormsloe Plantation driveway. Savannah vicinity, Chatham County, Georgia, ca. 1940 | src Shorpy