New Congressman from Ohio takes oath. Washington, D.C., March 5. The swearing in today of Mrs. Frances P. Bolton, Cleveland, as a member of the House brings to six the number of women representatives. Mrs. Bolton succeeds her late husband, Rep. Chester Bolton, as a Republican member from Ohio. shown in the photograph, left to right: Rep. George H. Bender, congressman-at-large from Ohio; Mrs. Bolton; Speaker Bankhead administering the oath; and Rep. L.L. Marshall congressman-at-large from Ohio, 3-5-40
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A black and white photo of a group of people, 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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