Capital lampposts dressed up for arrival of Nicaraguan President. Washington, D.C., May 4. Some visitors to Washington looking at flags of the United States and Nicaragua which decorate each lamp post along the line of the parade for the Nicaraguan President Somoza who will arrive tomorrow morning. Every other post has the seal of Nicaragua of the United States between the flags
Summary
A black and white photo of two children standing in front of a house, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)