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Bergdoll family at Senate Military Affairs Committee hearing. Washington, D.C., May 24. The family of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, the World War draft dodger who fled to Germany to escape prosecution, were in the Senate Military Affairs Committee room today as Harry Weinberger, Bergdoll attorney, denounced the House approved bill designed to prevent Bergdoll from returning to the United States. At the same time Weinberger announced that Bergdoll is aboard the liner Bremen which will arrive in New York tomorrow. Bergdoll will then be surrendered to the Commanding General of the Second Corps area at Governor's Island. Left to right can be seen: Mrs. Elizabeth Hall, sister of Bergdoll, Emma, a daughter, Erwin, a son, Mrs. Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, and Mrs. Emma C. Bergdoll, the draft evader's mother
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A black and white photo of a group of people, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Photo shows the Capitol Room, S-219, Senate wing, U.S. Capitol.
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 five.
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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