Dimes for Infantile Paralysis foundation flow into White House for president. Washington, D.C., Jan. 28. Official mail was nearly forgotten today at the White House as letters containing ten-cent contributions to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis continued to arrive by the thousands. Miss Margaret Lehand, Personal Secretary to President Roosevelt, is shown opening some of the 30,000 to arrive in the first mail this morning, 12838
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A man sitting at a table with stacks of papers, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
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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