Visual Materials

Portraiture

Description: These images span the length of Johnston's major portraiture years, beginning in 1895 with 23 shots of the first sitter in her studio, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and including a series of Supreme Court Justices which Johnston made in 1905. The sitters are divided into the following categories and finding guides are available according to these topics: Presidents, Cabinet members, Senators, House members, Supreme Court Justices, Diplomats, State Department employees, Women, Government Commissions, and Portraits (including authors, artists, poets, children -essentially all those who are not affiliated with the government either by direct appointment or marriage). The large format portraits are housed in Box 12.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1895-1905
Call number: photCL 352 (1-931)
Creator

Portraits, Sp-Y by sitter

Visual Materials

The Huntington's collection of Johnston photographs covers her D.C. career, mainly in the 1890s. Johnston herself described the collection as "portraits of famous men and women and historic events ... through the administrations of Benj. Harrison, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft." The focus is largely on D.C. socialites, diplomats, Presidents, senators, reformers, Supreme Court justices, artists, authors, Confederacy officers, etc. Also included are series of views of Washington's embassies (largely interior shots), legations, and famous residences Johnston photographed for Demorest's family magazine. The remainder of the collection includes, among other items, copies of Mathew Brady's daguerreotypes that belonged to the War Dept., treaties and other official documents from the State Dept. Archives, Lincoln ephemera intended to illustrate Ida Tarbell's Life of Lincoln, and views of the Bell telephone

photCL 352 (801-931)

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