Frances Benjamin Johnston
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Frances Benjamin Johnston was an American photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for almost half a century. She is most known for her portraits, images of southern architecture, and vari
Johnston in 1905
Portrait of ten men including Anderson D. Johnston (seated second from right)
Self-portrait by Johnston, dressed as a man, sporting a fake mustache and holding a bicycle, ca. 1890.
Self Portrait (as New Woman), an 1896 self-portrait taken in her Washington, DC studio
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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Alice Lee Roosevelt Longworth was an American writer, political activist, and socialite. She was the eldest child of United States president Theodore Roosevelt and his only child with his first wife,
Frances Benjamin Johnston
…Washington, principal of the Tuskegee Institute. Well connected among elite society, she was commissioned by magazines to do "celebrity" portraits, such as Alice Roosevelt's wedding portrait. She was dubbed the "Photographer to the American court." She photographed Admiral Dewey on the deck of the USS Olympia, the children…
Roosevelt Longworth in the 1920s
The Roosevelt family in 1903 with Quentin on the left, Theodore Roosevelt, Ted, Archie, Alice, Kermit, Edith, and Ethel.
Hand-tinted photograph of Alice Roosevelt circa 1903 by Frances Benjamin Johnston.
Alice Roosevelt in 1902 with her dog, Leo, a long-haired Chihuahua. She was also gifted a Pekingese named Manchu by the Empress Dowager Cixi in 1905.