Col. Clifford and committee to determine cause of mysterious fire which broke out on a roof of Treasury the night of May 3. Left to right: H. Marks, Acting Chief Clerk; Col. Edward Clifford, Asst. Secy.; Jos. E. Murphy, Asst. Chief Secret Service; H.S. McAllister, inspector of bldgs.; and Capt. Q.B. Newman, Engineer in Chief, U.S. Coast Guard
Summary
A group of men sitting around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve.
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.)
Tags
Date
Location
Source
Copyright info