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He was almost exclusively interested in documenting the rural, countryside inhabitants of small towns and farmlands. Though settled in Hadley, Johnson continued his career as a photographer, illustrator, writer, and self-styled folklorist. They had six children, Margaret, Arthur, Roger, Irving, Oliver (who died in infancy), and Katharine. After a honeymoon to Scotland and England (that doubled as a work trip for Clifton), they moved into his childhood homestead. On he married Anna McQueston (1876-1954), a Hockanum resident and the teacher at the village’s one-room schoolhouse they had attended as children. With his literary career well in hand, Johnson decided to settle down.

He began to split his time between Hadley and New York City, attending literary and art functions, and continuing to write and illustrate for local publications. In 1892, he published his first book, The New England Country. In 1888, he purchased his first camera and started taking photographs to aid his drawing. Praised and encouraged for his work, he moved to New York City in the fall of 1887 to hone his artistic talent at the Art Students League. While living in Northampton, Johnson began writing and illustrating for local periodicals in the Springfield and Northampton areas. It includes a large body of photographs and artwork, as well as many of Johnson’s personal notebooks, diaries, published articles, correspondence, and ephemera. This collection of approximately 7,000 items comprises a wide range of materials reflecting Johnson’s life and work. Though he focused most of his professional work on rural life, particularly in America, he also had an interest in children’s literature – writing, illustrating, or editing several children’s books and collecting a large number of schoolbooks from the late 17th century onward.

He was one of the area’s most important literary figures, having about 125 books and many newspaper and magazine articles to his name at the time of his death on January 22, 1940. Growing up in rural western Massachusetts influenced his career as a writer, author, illustrator and photographer. On JanuClifton Johnson was born in Hockanum, a small village of Hadley, Massachusetts. Clifton Johnson Collection, bulk 1885 - 1935

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