Goodbye and Good Luck. After christening the seaplane in which Lieut. Benjamin Mendes, of Colombia, will attempt a nonstop flight from Far Rockaway, N.Y., to Colombia, Miss Maria Olaya, daughter of the minister from Colombia to the United States, bid the flyer bon voyage. The plane was christened Ricaurte in honor of one of Colombia's famous generals
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A man in uniform shaking hands with a woman on a dock, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve.
On sleeve: Watch Your Credit Line.
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.)
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