New Assistant Att'y General. Washington, D.C., March 15. Sam E. Whitaker, Chattanooga, Tenn., is being congratulated by Attorney General Homer S. Cummings after the former had taken the oath of office as Assistant Attorney General in charge of claims. The ceremony took place today. Whitaker succeeds James W. Morris as head of the Claims Division. Whitaker is on the right
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A black and white photo of two men shaking hands, 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 four.
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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