Annual meeting of Chamber of Commerce opens in Capital. Washington, D.C., April 26. Leading businessmen and industrialists from all parts of the country were in attendance today as the annual meeting of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce convened. the meeting celebrates the Chamber's twenty-fifth anniversary. Colby M. Chester, Chairman, General Foods Corporation of New York, is shown making principal speech, 4261937

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.)