"Her portrait work immortalized Susan B. Anthony, Joel Chandler Harris, Mark Twain, the Roosevelts, George Washington Carver, Alexander Graham Bell, Booker T. Washington, Admiral Dewey, President McKinley and many others. Women workers, coal miners, iron men, blacks, Indians, students and world expositions are the subjects of her photo-essays. Independent and successful, Frances Benjamin Johnston produced numerous self-portraits, documenting her unconventional life during the gilded age of post-Victorian America. A Talent for Detail is an historical record of America from 1889-1910; a gallery of the famous and the common people of that time, and a photobiography of an extraordinarily gifted woman."--Provided by publisher.