New Asst. Secretary of Labor takes oath. Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. Charles V. McLaughlin, recently named by President Roosevelt to succeed Edward F. McGrady as Assistant Secretary of Labor, was today sworn in at the Labor Department. McLaughlin is Senior Vice President, Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen. In the photograph, left to right: Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, Charles V. McLaughlin, and Jesse C. Watts, Acting Chief Clerk of the Labor Department, administering the oath, 12038
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A black and white photo of two men and a woman, 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.)