Frances Benjamin Johnston


 

Between 1929 and 1935, Frances Benjamin Johnston took photos of Rosegill as part of the Carnegie Survey of Architecture of the South, 1933-1941. Information on this can be found at the Library of Congress at

Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South

Two of the photographs are located at the University of Virginia Fine Arts Library collection of Johnston photographs. These can be located on-line at

http://repo.lib.virginia.edu:18080/fedora/get/uva-lib:414955/uva-lib-bdef:100/getFullView

Thanks to Taylor Stoermer for finding these.

 

 

Johnston, Frances Benjamin. Rosegill, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, United States, 1929-1935
University of Virginia Library Digital Collections.

http://repo.lib.virginia.edu:18080/fedora/get/uva-lib:474096/uva-lib-bdef:100/getFullView/

 

 

Johnston, Frances Benjamin. Rosegill, Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, United States, 1929-1935
University of Virginia Library Digital Collections.

http://repo.lib.virginia.edu:18080/fedora/get/uva-lib:474095/uva-lib-bdef:100/getFullView/

 

 

The Library of Congress has this additional photo of Rosegill by Frances Benjamin Johnston, Lot 1263-29 (G). In checking on the archives of the Library of Congress, a researcher reported:

"After I checked the card catalog, the original box of photos from Middlesex County in the Carnegie Survey, and the fiche, then Gay the cataloger also checked things. Then, our Acting Chief, who has been reserching in the Manuscripte Division recently on the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South, was consulted. She reported that there was a deal of correspondence between UVA and the Library of Congress regarding Miss Johnston's photographing. Sometimes it sounded like she was on assignment from UVA (a professor selected sites, for example) and was definitely providing them with prints. Another possibility to explain why the photographs are not hear is that there are notes about some deteriorated negatives that the Library of Congress had to pitch out in the 1950s. This could be another avenue by which UVA might have wound up with prints, while LC didn't get a negative."