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Benedicte Wrensted Danish Photographer In Idaho Rediscovered, Joanna Scherer

The Bridge

In 1979 a book The American Image: Photographs from

the National Archives, 1860-1960 was published. It was

based on an exhibit of the same name, which opened at the

National Archives in Washington, D. C. in November, 1979.

In the forward James Rhoads, archivist of the United

States, tells about how the photos were selected.