6 Greeting Cards of Frances Johnstons Hand Colored Lantern Slides of Tennis Court Pergola Tuscany Italy

Villa Bel Riposo, San Domenico, Tuscany, Italy. Tennis Court Pergola-Frances-Fannie-Benjamin Johnston was one of the earliest American female photographers and photojournalists. She took portraits of many famous contemporaries including Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain and Booker T. Washington. Well connected among elite society, she was commissioned by magazines to do celebrity portraits, such as Alice Roosvelt’s wedding portrait, and was dubbed the Photographer to the American court. She photographed Admiral Dewey on the deck of the USS Olympia, the Roosevelt children playing with their pet pony at the White House and the gardens of Edith Wharton’s famous villa near Paris. In the 1920s she became increasingly interested in photographing architecture, motivated by a desire to document buildings and gardens which were falling into disrepair or about to be redeveloped and lost. Her photographs remain an important resource for modern architects, historians and conservationists. Here you have a collection of Hand colored lantern slides representing JohnstonÕs travels from March through October in New England and the Midwest, to California from 1917-1923, and in Europe in 1925. She photographed Italian Renaissance villas and the revivalist gardens of Americans Elsie de Wolfe, Bernard Berenson and Nancy Astor during the 1920s

Product Features

• Set of 6(5×7) inch Greeting Cards with Envelopes
• Printed, on, Heavy Weight, Fine Art, Museum Grade, card stock
• created from original hand-colored lantern slides
• We Use the Highest Quality Inks & Paper, Suitable for Framing
• Attractively packaged ready to give as a gift