Framed Print: Old Cabin On Fall Run, Scott's Hill, circa 1925

Title: Old Cabin On Fall Run, Scott's Hill, circa 1925 Description: Photograph shows a small clapboard-sided building with doors and windows, low wooden extension, and wire fence in front, with chicken. Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer Subjects: Houses--Virginia--Falmouth--1920-1930 Collection: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was one of the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer. Trained at the Academie Julian in Paris, she studied photography upon her return to Washington, D.C., in the mid-1880s and opened a professional studio circa 1890. Her family’s social position gave Johnston access to the First Family and leading Washington political figures and launched her career as a photojournalist and portrait photographer. Johnston turned to garden and estate photography in 1910s. Images in the collection span the period 1850-1949, but the majority date between 1897 and 1927.