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Re: lying with pixels



Jeff lewin wrote:
"And, as we all know, all documents residing in archives are the truth, the
whole truth and nothing but the truth?  I submit that photographs lie no more
than do letters or firsthand accounts."

How about the ONLY truth?  I suggest that historians have always been
selective, anyway - how else to explain the absence of certain groups from
official histories?  And don't we, as archivists, decide every day what makes
history, through the choices we make about what to keep and what to discard?

Jody Georgeson
The Telecommunications History Group
Denver, Colorado

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