Scope and Contents

The series consists of outlying formats. Notable materials within this series include a program for the 1972 Southern California Presidential Dinner with Richard Nixon, as well as a sketch and letter from designer Elgé Bové about a dress he designed and sent to Johnson, along with an amusing description of why she was the perfect woman to wear it.

Scope and Contents This series is mostly comprised of chronologically-arranged clippings from the social pages of New York-based newspapers and other publications, including the New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Women’s Wear Daily, and Manhattan magazine. Johnson is also featured in multiple clippings from Italian and French magazines.These clippings only document...

Scope and Contents This series consists of 286 color and black and white prints depicting Johnson, arranged in roughly chronological order. The archivist used surrounding materials to estimate undated materials. Numerous photographs feature Johnson posing in her Fifth Avenue apartment. Some of the outfits modeled in her home are also found being worn at parties from articles in the Clippings series. A number of prints include photography studio stamps or handwritten captions indicating the year that the...