First baseball stamp comes off press. Washington, D.C., May 26. Postmaster General James. A. Farley points to the first batch of the new baseball stamps as they come off the press at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing today. The stamp is being issued and will be first placed on sale at Cooperstown, N.Y., where it is said the first game was played. Alvin Hall, Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, is shown with the Postmaster General

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.)