Congressional beer crusaders witness signing of beer bill. Members of Congress today witnessed the actual signing of their hard fought battle for legalized beer. Surrounding President Roosevelt at his desk in the Cabinet Room are, left to right: Representatives Claude V. Parsons of Illinois; John W. McCormack of Massachusetts.; Clerk of Committee, H.V. Hesselman who brought the Bill to the White House; and Representatives John J. O'Connor of New York; Thomas H. Cullen and Adolph J. Sabath of Illinois, 32233
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A group of men standing around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
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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 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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