visibility Similar

code Related

Group of men holding bones, probably connected to "Bone dry" support of prohibition; William D. Upshaw, proponent of temperance movement, at right. U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

description

Summary

A group of men standing next to each other, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection

Date based on date of negatives in same range.

Title information from Flickr Commons Project, 2015.

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 seven.

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.)

label_outline

Tags

district of columbia washington dc glass negatives harris and ewing collection harris and ewing photo bones temperance movement ultra high resolution high resolution us capitol united states capitol washington dc united states history library of congress
date_range

Date

01/01/1923
collections

in collections

Harris & Ewing

The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives. Washington DC.
place

Location

create

Source

Library of Congress
link

Link

https://www.loc.gov/
copyright

Copyright info

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

label_outline Explore Temperance Movement, Bones, Us Capitol

Central High School pageant - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

A black and white photo of a group of children, Washington, D.C. Children at play

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND R.R. OFFICIALS

Group: includes William Jennings Bryan (at desk, 2nd from right); and Josephus Daniels, middle of 2nd row

Autogino hearings at Capitol. Prof. Alexander Klemin Guggenheim School of Aeronautics, Autogino hearings at Capitol, 4/30/38

[Native American mortuary customs: row of Indians carrying bodies over their shoulders to fires, platform with skeletons hanging above and bones below on benches, and groups of Indians standing around fires and poles hung with cloth or skins]

[Two men; U.S. Capitol in background. Washington, D.C.]

[Congressional legislative assistant Kirk Bell, speaking at microphone at a press conference at F and 5th Streets, NE, Washington, D.C., the site of the murder of his friend, Thomas "Gray" Liddell]

President organizes $4,000,000,000 pump priming campaign. Washington, D.C., April 11. President Roosevelt met with his Relief and Congressional Aides today to the personal command of a new administration fight to check business recession with a $4,000,000,000 pump priming campaign. The president subordinated all other White House business to efforts to hammer his lending and spending program into shape as a major New Deal offensive against recession and unemployment, left to right: Director of the Budget Daniel Bell, Sen. James F. Byrnes, SC. Sen. Carter Glass of Virginia, Majority Leader of the House Sen. Sam Rayburn of Tex., Sen Kenneth McKeller of Tenn., Sec. of Treasury Henry Morenthau, and in the rear, Rep. Edward Johnson, of Colo., April 11, 1938

Sec. of State greets Hughes on his arrival in Washington. Washington, D.C., July 21. Sec. of State Cordell Hull, ranking cabinet member in the Capitol, officially greeted Howard Hughes and his crew upon their arrival in the Capitol, they are shown in the office of the Secretary of State, left to right; Richard Stoddard, Lieut. Thomas Thurlow, Howard Hughes, Sec. of State Hull, Harry Conner, and Ed. Lund, 72138

Washington, D.C. International student assembly. Chinese delegates at the assembly

Col. Knox appears before Senate Naval Affairs Committee. Washington, D.C., July 2. A general view of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee room as Col. Frank Knox testified today regarding his qualifications to be secretary of the Navy. Knock can bee seen on the right facing the Committee, 7-2-40

Topics

district of columbia washington dc glass negatives harris and ewing collection harris and ewing photo bones temperance movement ultra high resolution high resolution us capitol united states capitol washington dc united states history library of congress