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Union Representative displays bullet wound received from Harlan County sheriffs. Washington, D.C., April 27. A.T. Pace, Representative of the United Mine Workers, inspects the bullet wound in the back of Thomas Ferguson, Coal Miner Representative, who testified before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee the he was shot by Harlan County, Ky., deputy sheriffs last January. Ferguson displayed a bloody shirt to the Committee to prove his contention, 4271937

Guests of Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida, enjoying an evening of "bingo"

[Umpires: Eugene "Bob" Hart, Billy Evans, Hank O'Day, Dick Nallin, 10/10/1923 (baseball)]

Umpires: Eugene "Bob" Hart, Billy Evans, Hank O'Day, Dick Nallin, 10101923 (baseball)

Guests of Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida, enjoying an evening of "bingo"

Timekeepers and scorekeepers at basketball game at Eufaula, Oklahoma

Union Representative displays bullet wound received from Harlan County sheriffs. Washington, D.C., April 27. A.T. Pace, Representative of the United Mine Workers, inspects the bullet wound in the back of Thomas Ferguson, Coal Miner Representative, who testified before the Senate Civil Liberties Committee the he was shot by Harlan County, Ky., deputy sheriffs last January. Ferguson displayed a bloody shirt to the Committee to prove his contention, 4/27/1937

Hear I am. Howard C. Hopson, long sough utility witness, appears at the House Lobby Investigation committee, to say that he doesn't like "prying into his personal income," 81335

Not cold sweat ... Thomas G. Corcoran, Atty. and brain truster who has been on the spot this week at House rules investigations of utility lobby charges, has been handling himself pretty cooly and capably at the hearing ... but over the Washington climatic heat wave Corcoran can't help perspiring, Wednesday. 71035

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Cigars? Yes Sir [...] that's what Norris Shook, nephew of Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex), told the House Lobby com. Friday, was in the "mystery box" received by Patton from John Carpenter, Uuility lobbyist before the House "Death Sentence" vote on the Wheeler-Rayburn bill

They believe the box contained cigars. This quartet, photoed Thursday at the House lobby hearing made more news this week. L. to r.: Norman Shook, nephew of Rep. Patton, (who was reported to have said "Hell, that box did not contain cigars") Rep. Adolph J. Sabath (D. of Ill), Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex.) and Nat Patton Jr., who arrived on Capitol Hill Thursday by plane from Texas to be with his dad in his attempt to ward off suspicions that the Congressman may have received some cash favors for his vote on the Utility death sentence last month. 8135

Patton Explains [...] Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex) has an idea he desires to impart to Rep. John J. O'Connor, chairman of the House Lobby hearing at its Thursday session. Patton has been mildly "on the spot" at the hearings since testimony inferred that he had received something more or vastly different from cigars from a Utility lobbiest prior to the first "Death Sentence" holding company vote in the house, 8/1/35

Patton Explains ... Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex) has an idea he desires to impart to Rep. John J. O'Connor, chairman of the House Lobby hearing at its Thursday session. Patton has been mildly "on the spot" at the hearings since testimony inferred that he had received something more or vastly different from cigars from a Utility lobbiest prior to the first "Death Sentence" holding company vote in the house, 8135

They believe the box contained cigars. This quartet, photoed Thursday at the House lobby hearing made more news this week. L. to r.: Norman Shook, nephew of Rep. Patton, (who was reported to have said "Hell, that box did not contain cigars") Rep. Adolph J. Sabath (D. of Ill), Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex.) and Nat Patton Jr., who arrived on Capitol Hill Thursday by plane from Texas to be with his dad in his attempt to ward off suspicions that the Congressman may have received some cash favors for his vote on the Utility death sentence last month. 8/1/35

Mr. Taylor, tobacco sharecropper, relaxes when the tobacco has been "put up." Granville County, North Carolina

Gentlemen, I am shagrined [...] so hinted Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex) when it was inferred by testimony of Eugene Sellers, NRA employee, that the box of cigars he received some time ago from utilities Chief John Carpenter was "not a box of cigars" and was a "pastebord box instead of a wooden one." Rep. Patton is seen here displaying the package he claims to have recieved, before the Senate Lobby hearing Friday, 7/26/35

New York City, The cigar maker's strike--Tenement cigar making

Scene from the American Tobacco neighborhood, locally called the American Tobacco Campus, in Durham, North Carolina

Cigars? Yes Sir ... that's what Norris Shook, nephew of Rep. Nat Patton (D. of Tex), told the House Lobby com. Friday, was in the "mystery box" received by Patton from John Carpenter, Uuility lobbyist before the House "Death Sentence" vote on the Wheeler-Rayburn bill

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A black and white photo of a man sitting at a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection

Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve.

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 eight.

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.)

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The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives. Washington DC.
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html

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