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Latest addition to aircraft collection at Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., April 6 -Scott Lucas and ...Harold Butt(?), inspect the latest addition to the aircraft collection at the Smithsonian Institution, model of the small biplane which Lincoln Beachey flew over Washington twenty-five years ago to thrill the Nation's lawmakers. He gave an exhibition of air maneuvers such as never seen before to impress members of Congress with the need of Military Preparedness. 4-6-39
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An old photo of a woman and a boy looking at a plane, 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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