First exclusive picture in new Supreme Court building. Members of the United States Supreme Court Advisory Committee on rules of Civil Procedure in an exclusive Harris & Ewing photograph which was the first to be made of any legal group in the new Court building. The committee is working out a uniform set of rules to be used in district courts to so as to secure one form of procedure. From the left, seated: Edison R. Sunderland, U. of Mich.; Chas. E. Clark. Yale; William D. Mitchell, former attorney general; Edgar B. Colman, Spl. Ass't Att. Gen; George W. Wickersham, former Attorney General (Standing), L to R: James Moore, clerk; Ferdinand Stone. Edward C. Jaegerman, both clerks; George Donworth, Seattle; A.M. Dobie, Virginia Law School; Warren Olney, Jr., San Francisco; Robt. G. Dodge, Boston; Monte N. Lee Lemman, New Orleans; Edmund M. Morgen, Harvard; Wilbur H. Cherry, Minn.; S.M. Loftin, former Bar Assn. Pres. ...
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A black and white photo of a large group of men, Library of Congress Harris and 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 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.)