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Title	Benedicte Wrensted: An Idaho Photographer in Focus
View collection at	http://anthropology.si.edu/wrensted/
Description	Benedicte Wrensted (1859-1949), a native of Denmark, arrived in the United States in 1894. She was a professional photographer in Pocatello, Idaho from 1895 to 1912. This online exhibit features Wrensted's photographs of Native Americans. Curator Joanna Cohan Scherer provides historical context for the photographs, notes that Wrensted retouched her negatives, and suggests differences between Wrensted's portraits of Euro-American and Native American subjects.
Creator	Scherer, Joanna Cohan
Subject	Immigrants Indians of North America Women photographers
Place	United States -- Idaho -- Pocatello
Featured Women	Wrensted, Benedicte
Time Period	1880-1899 1900-1909
Publisher	Smithsonian Institution
Primary Sources	Photographs
Thumbnail caption	Portrait of Benedicte Wrensted taken in Horsens, Denmark, about 1891, when she was 32 years old. Credit: Smithsonian Institution, Handbook of North American Indians Project: Sherwood Collection.

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