The Woman Who Photographed the President

Wes Cowan traces the steps of the first woman photographer assigned to the White House. More

This episode takes Wes Cowan to the White House. Did the first woman photographer assigned to the White House use this camera to photograph Harry Truman? Then Gwen Wright looks into a Confederate family legend that a child and her doll smuggled medicine behind the Northern blockade. And with labels in French, English and Spanish, what does this map tell us about how Europe colonized Florida?

AIR DATE 8/29/11