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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
Visual Materials
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Cyanotype copy prints of Matthew Brady daguerreotypes which Johnston made from the originals in the War Department collections. The portraits are of U.S. military personnel and politicians: Henry S. Foote, George W. P. Custis, John M. Clayton, Robert John Walker, John Y. Mason, John Ellis Wool, Jacob Thomspon, John A. Dix, William L. Dayton, John Marhsall Washinton, Thomas Corwin, John Bell, David Dudley Field, Winfield Scott, Amos Kendall, and Henry Dodge.
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These images span the length of Johnston's major portraiture years. They notably include 23 shots of the first sitter in her studio, Frances Hodgson Burnett. The sitters include mostly local Washington DC, socialites, diplomats, presidents, senators, reformers, supreme court justices, artists, authors, and Confederacy officers. The print formats include both the original cyanotype prints that Johnston made, as well as copy gelatin silver prints that The Huntington made at later dates. Large format portraits can be found in Subseries "Oversize Portraits (items 1215-1248)." Notable sitters include Susan B. Anthony, President James Garfield, President William McKinley, President Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie, Robert E. Lee, Eadweard Muybridge, and many more.
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These photographs were taken by Johnston to illustrate Ida Tarbell's book, The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1903). The images include a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and Tad (Meserve 39), Lincoln's chair and his Bible, documents and products with Lincoln labels. Most of the items were probably in the War Department collections.
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Larger photographic prints mostly made from larger 11 x 14 inch glass plate negatives. Sitters include Theodore Roosevelt (1902), a signed and mounted platinum print of Frances Folsom Cleveland, Julian Pauncefote, Wu T'ing Fang and his wife Madame Wu, and more. There is also a series of autographed salt prints of well-known men. The images are duplicates of the 8x10 inch portraits listed in the Portraits Series and appear to be a series that Johnston was preparing as a limited edition for sale.
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Larger photographic prints made from Johnston's 11 x 14 inch and larger glass plate negatives. Prints include a mounted platinum print of the Officers of the First National Congress of Mothers (February 1897). This organization was the forerunner of the Parent-Teacher Association, and the portrait is autographed by all the sitters. There is a series of cyanotype proofs and platinum prints of Frances Folsom Cleveland and the Ladies of the Cabinet (items 1250-1257). Both sittings (January, February 1897) are included and two of the mounted prints are signed by some of the women in attendance. Other items are group portraits of the first and second McKinley Cabinets, signing of treaties (1898, 1899), and opening ceremonies of the 59th U.S. Congress (1905).
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This series contains prints (largely cyanotype) made by Johnston from the glass plate negatives that are a part of this collection, as well as a small number of prints made by The Huntington at later dates. There are also two pieces of ephemera: empty Eastman Kodak glass plate boxes with Johnston's handwriting on them. A small amount of index cards with Johnston's handwritten notes about the dates and subjects of the images can be found alongside some of the prints.
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