1600 block of H Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., showing Handicraft School, at left, 1622 H Street, and American Red Cross building at right, 1624 H Street, with 17th Street corner leading to old Corcoran Art Gallery in distance
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An old black and white photo of a building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Date and address of H. School based on Washington Post, Oct. 8, 1914, p. 14.
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 three.
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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