02629ckc a2200277 a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020001500062040000800077043001200085050002300097100004400120245007500164260003100239300002400270300004600294351028700340351013200627500001800759510013700777510019700914540004201111545109701153650005302250710004802303OSt20220127085353.0070224i18641940xxunnn            kneng    a1844072118  cDLC  an-us---00aHT 361 b.F45 20051 aJohnston, Frances Benjamin,d1864-1952,00aCarnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South (Library of Congress)  c1927-1943, bulk 1933-1940.  a XLVIII, 246c29 cm  aca. 6,800 negatives :bfilm ;c8 x 10 in.  3Photographic prints made by the Library of Congress:aOrganized into 8 groups (LOTS);barranged by state and subdivided by county. The call numbers are: LOT 11833 (ALA), LOT 11834 (FLA), LOT 11835 (GA), LOT 11836 (LA), LOT 11837 (MD), LOT 11839 (NC), LOT 11840 (SC), LOT 11841 (VA).  aOriginal negatives:bArranged by state and a four-digit negative number within series code LC-J7. Sample call number: LC-J7-VA-  ainclude index4 aSpecial Collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980,cno. 394 aGuide to the Special Collections of Prints and Photographs in the Library of Congress / compiled by Paul Vanderbilt. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Reference Department, 1955,cno. 388  aNo known restrictions on publication.  aOne of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer, Frances Benjamin Johnston opened a studio in Washington, D.C., in 1890, carrying out portrait and photojournalism assignments. She entered into partnership with Mattie Edwards Hewitt, operating a New York City studio that specialized in architectural and garden photography, 1913-1917. Johnston began a series of systematic architectural field trips in 1927-29 with a privately commissioned survey of Fredersicksburg, Va., and Old Falmouth for Mrs. Daniel B. Devore "to preserve something of the atmosphere of an old Virginia town." A grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York extended the survey to cover the entire state of Virginia under sponsorship of the University of Virginia. Successive Carnegie grants totaled $26,000 to cover the other States under Library of Congress sponsorship. The American Institute of Architects honored Miss Johnston for her achievement in 1945. Johnston kept control of the negatives during her lifetime, but selective sets of prints were made for several libraries and museums. 7aArchitecturezSouthern Statesy1930-1940.2lctgm2 aCarnegie Corporation of New York,esponsor.