Two autochrome portraits of Isabel Anderson in the breakfast room at Anderson House, 1910 [photo]

Two autochrome portraits of Isabel Anderson in the breakfast room at Anderson House, 1910 [photo]

Washington, D.C. ca. 1910

2 glass plate photographs ; 13 x 18 cm and 17 x 22 cm.

PHOTO L2014D1.1

Two autochrome portraits of Isabel Anderson in the breakfast room in the Winter Garden at Anderson House. The smaller plate (PHOTO L2014D1.1) shows Isabel Anderson seated in front of the mural depicting the gardens at Weld. The larger plate (PHOTO L2014D1.2) is a full-length portrait of Isabel standing in front the same mural. In both portraits Isabel Anderson wears the same dress and large emerald brooch.
These portraits are likely the work of Frances Benjamin Johnston in 1910. A notation in Johnston's account book for 1910 lists color plates and "portaits of Mrs. A" in addition to Johnston's photographs of the interiors at Anderson House (See PHOTO L77.116).
Due to damage, most of the original coloration in the images has been lost with only traces of color remaining. The Autochrome was the first industrially produced true color photography process invented by the Lumière brothers. Frances Benjamin Johnston was a friend of the Lumières and an early adopter of the technology.
Digitized images available.

Papers of Frances Benjamin Johnston, Reel 23. Library of Congress, Manuscripts Division.

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