Self Portrait 'New Woman' (1896) by Frances Benjamin Johnston Framed or Unframed:Standard Frame basically poetry and illustration teaming

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Self Portrait 'New Woman' (1896) by Frances Benjamin Johnston Framed or Unframed:Standard Frame basically poetry and illustration teamingIn this self portrait the photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston poses as an independent 'new woman.' On the mantlepiece are six portraits she took of men (from left to right): poet Bliss Carman; A. N. Brown, likely the librarian at the U. S. Naval Academy; Henry Guston Rogers, likely the inventor and playwright Henry Gustave Rogers; architect James Rush Marshall; Smithsonian librarian Frank Phister; and L. M. McCormick, a photographer and member of