[Frances Benjamin Johnston, full-length portrait, seated in…
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In this self-portrait the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston poses as an independent 'new woman.' On the mantlepiece 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.
1 photographic print mounted on layered paper: gelatin silver ; photo 19.7 x 15.7 cm, on mount 24.1 x 29.2 cm.
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