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Lehr's interest in photography awakened in 1968, Lehr truly had to learn about the meaning and guts of the medium unaided; gallery shows were few, museum exhibitions nil. For the first four years, she charted a course of study that took her into the archives of Eastman House, The Library of Congress, Museum of History and Technology, Washington DC, MOMA, Long Island Historical Society, NY Historical Society, The Victoria and Albert, The Science Museum, the Royal Photographic Association, The Gernsheim Collection, The Bancroft Library, the Huntington Hartford Library, the Chicago Art Institute, Chicago Historical Society, the Royal Library in Copenhagen and finally in 1972 the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris - which in turn opened up doors to a dozen French museums and the Societe Francaise de la Photographie.In 1972 when she advertised her interest in photography in Artnews and Artforum magazines, she met the curators and museum directors already collecting for themselves, as museums had not begun to actively collect. In early published accounts of the field her vision was singled out. Ann Horten, curator at Sotheby NY, in a Time Magazine article in 1975 called her, "a connoisseur", a very positive attribute in Lehr's eyes. She has been compared to Andre Jammes, a legendary exhibition organizer and collector. These early contacts with the aesthetically attuned museum curators shaped the years that followed. The sophistication of vision that enables her to amass wonderful works and collections 'while the world slumbered' brought unparalleled opportunities that lead to associations with museums, museum trustees and serious collectors until today. Lehr's circle is small. Beginning with Beaumont Newhall and later Van deren Coke at The Eastman House, Helaine Ademar and Bernar Marbot at the Bibliotheque Nationale, John Wilmerding and Sam Wagstaff in the US, she learned to build collections for museums and the most discerning collectors. A compliment to collection building was an extensive museum exhibition program.