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
Summary
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.)