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One of the largest crowds ever seen at a hearing gathered at the Capitol when Edward W. Bok testified regarding his Peace Prize. Shown in center foreground

[Group; Herbert Hoover, center]

TVA congressional investigators hold first meeting. Washington, D.C., April 27. With their membership now complete, The Joint Congressional Committee to investigate the Tennessee Valley Authority met today for the first time. They laid plans to round up their staff of lawyers, investigators, and clerks, some of whom will probably go south to do preliminary work. In the photo, left to right: (seated) Sen. Lynn Frazier, (R) North Dakota; Sen. Vic Donahey, (D) of Ohio, Chairman; Sen. James J. Davis, (R) Penna.; and Rep. Thomas A. Jenkins, (R) Ohio. Standing, left to right: Rep. Charles A. Wolverton, (R) New Jersey; Rep. William J. Driver, (D) Arkansas; Sen. H.H. Schwartz, (D) Wyoming; Rep. R. Ewing Thomason, (D) Texas; and Rep. James M. Mead, (D) New York, Co-Chairman, 4/27/38

George Whitney & Thomas W. Lamont - Public domain portrait photograph

Vice President Garner (right) and unidentified

George Whitney & Thomas W. Lamont - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Scheduled to tell Monopoly Committee of iron firm's financing. Washington, D.C., Dec. 14. B.A. Tomkins on the Bankers Trust Co. of New York City, photographed with Sen. Joseph O'Mahoney, Chairman of the Monopoly Committee, is scheduled to tell the committee sometime today of the financing of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. Left to right: Sen. O'Mahoney and Tomkins

Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission. First meeting of the Women's Policy Committee of the War Manpower Commission held on October 1, 1942. The committee is to aid in mobilizing women workers for the war effort. Standing, left to right: Dr. Lillian M. Gilbreth, Mrs. Beatrice Gould, Mrs. Dorothy Bellanca, Miss Bess Bloodworth, Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin, Miss Sara Southall, Miss Thelma McKelvey. Seat, left to right: Miss Margaret A. Hickey, chairman; Mrs. Lowell Hobart, Mrs. Gladys Talbott Edwards, Miss Ruth Allen, Mrs. Maudelle Bousfield, Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar, Miss Jenny Matyas, Mrs. Blanche M. Ralston

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A group of men in suits sitting at a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection

Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.

Date based on date of negatives in same range.

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.)

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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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The Supreme Court - group portrait

A black and white photo of a group of men. Great Depression and World War Two FSA/OWI Photograph

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND R.R. OFFICIALS

Speaker signs last minute bills. Washington D.C., Aug 21. Rep. John J. O'Connor New York, Chairman of the House Rules Committee, "shoots" Speaker Bankhead as he signs the last minute bills passed by the House before their adjournment tonight. Others in the picture are Rep. Mary T. Norton (left) of New Jersey; and Mrs. Bankhead, 82137

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

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

FSA (Farm Security Administration) supervisors at a district meeting at San Angelo, Texas

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

Taos, New Mexico. Jimmy Valentine, secretary of the Taos County cooperative health association, at a board meeting

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

WILSON, WOODROW. WITH NEWSPAPER CABINET

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