First pictures in new Supreme Court shows advisors. Exclusive: this is the first picture to be made of an official meeting of any legal body in the new U.S. Supreme Court. It shows William D. Mitchell, left, former attorney general, and George W. Wickersham, as they met with a group as appointed as the United States Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules of Civil Procedure. The meeting was in the conference room next to the court chamber, and was the first time a conference room has been used in the new building
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Two men sitting at a table with papers, 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 eight.
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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