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Lodewyk Bendikson (1875-1953) was a US expert on photographic techniques in documentation.
Lodewyk Bendikson was born in 1875 in Amsterdam. He received his early training at The Hague. Bendikson was influenced by John Shaw Billings, a former Surgeon General of the USA, who was responsible for the consolidation of the New York Public Library in 1910. They had come into contact at the New York Academy of Medicine.
In 1920 Bendikson joined the staff of the New York Public Library, then after six years, he joined the staff of the private library of the railroad magnate Henry E. Huntington in New York in February of 1916. Bendikson was one of the first to join the staff and and moved with it to its new building in San Marino, California, where he established a photographic laboratory in 1921 and developed and publicized photographic techniques for documentary reproduction, restoration, and forensic analysis.