Johnston, Frances Benjamin 1864-1952 creator Carnegie Corporation of New York sponsor. still image graphic xxu 1927-1943, bulk 1933-1940 1864 1940 monographic eng XLVIII, 246 29 cm ca. 6,800 negatives : film ; 8 x 10 in. include index No known restrictions on publication. One 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. n-us--- Architecture Southern States 1930-1940 HT 361 .F45 2005 Special Collections in the Library of Congress / compiled by Annette Melville. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1980, no. 39 Guide 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, no. 388 1844072118 No known restrictions on publication. 070224 20220127085353.0