Mrs. Peter Goelet Gerry, wife of the United States Senator and President of the Congressional Club, delivering the address of welcome to the American War Mothers and the Gold Star Mothers when they gathered at Arlington National Cemetery today, Mother's Day, to pay homage to America's Unknown Soldier, just back of Mrs. Gerry is Maj. General and Mrs. Charles P. Summerall
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A woman standing in front of a crowd of people, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
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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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