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![Gertrude Käsebier :: Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1898. Platinum print. The image was shown at The NY Photography Virtual Fair, sponsored by The Daguerreian Society | src Lunn Ltd. [one of the hosted Dealers]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52157932499_cfbe86a6ae_o.png)
![Gertrude Käsebier :: Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1898. Platinum print. The image was shown at The NY Photography Virtual Fair, sponsored by The Daguerreian Society [full size]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52157699563_56abacba69_o.png)


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
