Autogiro lands near U.S. Treasury, Washington, D.C. Oct. 2. A new type autogiro thousands of city folks may be parking in the yards or on the roofs of apartment houses in is shown about to land near the U.S. Treasury. The ship was flown to Washington by James G. Ray, veteran autogiro pilot, for delivery to the Bureau of Air Commerce, Department of Commerce, who will make several acceptance test flights
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A black and white photo of a helicopter in front of a building, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
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Harris and Ewing photo.
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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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