Statue to great commoner unveiled at Capitol. Washington, D.C., April 27. A statue of William Jennings Bryan was unveiled in Statuary Hall at the Capitol today by the Nebraska Memorial Commission. In the photograph, left to right: Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, Katherine Lehman and Helen Lehman, granddaughters of Bryan who unveiled the statue, Governor Roy L. Cochran of Nebraska, and Carl Morton
Summary
A group of people standing around a statue, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
On envelope: "1311" and "wrong #."
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 six.
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.)