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.

The visit by Lady Hawarden

Lady Hawarden (1822-1865) ~ Study from Life / Photographic Study ca. 1864. Albumen print from glass negative (detail)
Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865) ~ Study from Life or Photographic Study ca. 1864. Albumen print from glass negative | src V&A Museum
Lady Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865) ~ Study from Life or Photographic Study ca. 1864. Albumen print from wet collodion on glass negative | src V&A Museum

‘In this photograph as in Ph 380-1947 (image below) her two eldest daughters of Lady Hawarden reaffirm their bond with each other and with their mother. Isabella Grace, in an evening dress, her hair elaborately arranged, with her back to the camera perhaps in order to show the intricacies of her dress and hair to full advantage, stands at the French window to the terrace. Clementina, poised like a mirror before her sister, her expression perhaps reflecting that on Isabella Grace’s face, incongruously wears a riding habit and appears dishevelled. Their rapport is visually strengthened by the lines of the window, which direct our eyes to their arms, gracefully linked.’

Clementina Hawarden (1822-1865) :: Untitled (Isabella Grace and Clementina), 1864. Albumen print. | src V&A Museum
Clementina Hawarden ~ Der Besuch (The visit) | src Zeno.org

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

Bernhard · Classic Torso · 1952

Ruth Bernhard ~ Classic Torso, 1952. | src Princeton University Art Museum INV16299
Ruth Bernhard ~ Classic Torso, 1952, printed 1993 | src Princeton Art Museum INV16044
Ruth Bernhard ~ Classic Torso, 1952 src Bonhams
Ruth Bernhard ~ Classic Torso, 1952, printed later. Gelatin silver print. | src Heritage Auctions
Ruth Bernhard (1905-2006) ~ Classic Torso, 1952, printed 1984. | src Bonhams
Ruth Bernhard ~ Classic Torso, 1960 (?). Platinum-palladium print, printed later. | src Bonhams ~ Photographs auction 2021

Against the Light, 1951

Ruth Bernhard ~ Against the Light, 1951 | src Princeton Art Museum INV12634
Ruth Bernhard ~ Against the Light, 1951 | src Princeton Art Museum INV12607
Ruth Bernhard ~ Against the Light, 1951, printed 1970s. | src Swann Galleries via Luminous lint LL/74154
Ruth Bernhard ~ Against the Light, 1951 | src Princeton Art Museum INV12626

Étude de mains et sein nu, 1930s

Laure Albin Guillot (1879-1962) ~ Étude de mains et sein nu, ca. 1935. Vintage silver print, signed in the bottom by Laure Albin-Guillot, representing two clasped hands in front of a woman’s naked breast. | src Aguttes · Auction 2017
Laure Albin Guillot (1879-1962) ~ Nude study, ca. 1935
Laure Albin Guillot (1879-1962) ~ Étude de mains et sein nu, ca. 1935. Tirage argentique d’époque,sur papier vergé, signé au recto par Laure Albin-Guillot, représentant deux mains croisées devant le sein nu d’une femme. | src Aguttes · Auction 2018

Beatrice Baxter by Käsebier

Gertrude Käsebier ~ The sketch (Beatrice Baxter Ruyl), 1902 | src Rijksmuseum
Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934) ~ The Sketch, 1903. Platinum print. | src The Met

A frequent model for Käsebier and F. Holland Day, Beatrice Baxter Ruyl, who posed here, made illustrations for children’s books and the Boston Herald.

Gertrude Käsebier ~ The Sketch (Beatrice Baxter), 1903. Platinum print
Gertrude Kasebier ~ The Sketch, posed by Beatrice Baxter in Newport, Rhode island, 1902. Glass negative | src Library of Congress
Gertrude Käsebier ~ The Sketch (Beatrice Baxter), 1903. Platinum print. | Collection of George Eastman House