Deleting Photos in Bridge

When I open Bridge I see 100's of thumbnails from previous sessions. There are so many that it makes working with Bridge very cumbersome. How can I get rid of these just in Bridge without actually deleting them from my computer?

Just to elaborate a bit on what you've been told so far:
cgk92024 wrote:
…is there any way in which I can get Bridge top stop displaying the images I've previously loaded into Bridge?…
Please understand that you have NOT loaded anything "into" Bridge. Bridge is just a file browser, nothing more and nothing less. In its first iteration it started out as Photoshop File Browser and was called exactly that. A file browser just let's you look at files.
A browser is akin to a telescope or a pair of binoculars you place before your eyes in order to look at the world just as it is, where it is. You don't "load" anything "into" your telescope or binoculars.
Bridge doesn't edit or manipulate anything, it just hands the files to the appropriate application, whether that be Adobe Camera Raw, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign or even MS Word or Excel. It then keeps a dynamically changing cache of thumbnails for display only to show you thumbnails and previews.

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If you have done this you have destroyed your iPhoto library and will have to start over - you must NEVER make any changes of any sort to the content or structure of the iPhoto library using the finder or any program other than iPhoto - iPhoto is a relational database and making changes to its files from external sources will corrupt the library and case you to have to start over
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Not unless you have changed the default setting for the advanced preference to "copy imported items to the iPhoto library" - which is strongly not recommended
Based on what you have done that is your only choice.
A 'Roll' in iPhoto consists of a folder in Finder, and each import is its own roll
This is not the case - iPhoto is a database program and the folders do not necessarily correspond to events (rolls went away with iPhoto '08)
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