Print: Old Dunbar Quarters, Falmouth, Old Building From Hillside, circa

Title: Old Dunbar Quarters, Falmouth, Old Building From Hillside, circa 1925 Description: Photograph shows a view, from beyond a garden, of a clapboard-sided building with three dormers, large chimneys at each end, a porch off the front, and a small shed, inside a fenced-in yard. Also shows a large house on a hill in the background. Creator: Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952, photographer Subjects: Chimneys--Virginia--Falmouth--1920-1930, Dormers--Virginia--Falmouth--1920-1930, Gardens--Virginia--Falmouth--1920-1930, Houses--Virginia--Falmouth--1920-1930, Porches--Virginia--Falmouth--1920-1930, Sheds--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.