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Two men sitting at a desk in an office, 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 four.

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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Interior of the Cathedral, one of the most famous of Gothic structures, Antwerp, Belgium

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

Rep. Samuel B. Pettengill, D of Ind.

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

Sperry & Hutchinson Co., 114 5th Ave., New York City. Mr. F.W. Beinecke

WILSON, WOODROW. WITH NEWSPAPER CABINET

Plane with cruising radius of 11,000 miles at 380 miles per hour plan of Glenn Martin. Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Glenn L. Martin, Baltimore airplane manufacturer, today told amazed members of the House Naval Affairs Committee when he told he is studying plans for a new super ship capable of cruising 11,000 miles at 380 miles per hour with 4,000 pounds of bombs. The ship he is planning to build will dwarf even the biggest planes now in use, Martin added. Martin was testifying on President Roosevelt's billion- dollar Naval Expansion Program, 22838

Card game in beer parlor. Alkabo, North Dakota

San Augustine, Texas. W.F. Hays, the editor of the San Augustine Tribune

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