Papers, 1897-1954.

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Papers, 1897-1954.

Album (disbound) of photographs taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston and others aboard U.S.F.S. Olympia, compiled by Benjamin Franklin Littlejohn, c. 1898. Collection also includes clippings, ephemera and a volume in which Littlejohn wrote a brief narrative of his life, dated 1954.

1 box and 1 v.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7762109

Independence Seaport Museum

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Littlejohn, Benjamin Franklin.

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Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952

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Frances Benjamin Johnston (January 15, 1864 – May 16, 1952) was an early American photographer and photojournalist whose career lasted for almost half a century. She is most known for her portraits, images of southern architecture, and various photographic series featuring African Americans and Native Americans at the turn of the 20th century. In the 1880s, Johnston studied art in Paris and then returned home to Washington, DC, where she learned photography. She quickly established a national...

Olympia (Cruiser)

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The U.S.S Olympia, the flagship of the Asiatic Squadron during the Spanish-American War. The Olympia was commissioned on February 5, 1895 and sailed from Mare Island to take its position as flagship of the Asiatic Squadron on August 25, 1895, under the command of Captain John J. Read. In 1895-1897, the Olympia visited ports in China, Japan, and the Philippines, spending the winter of 1897 in Hong Kong Harbor. On Jan. 3, George Dewey, the new Squadron commander arrived onboard of the Olympia. Whe...