New Wage-Hour Administrator gets helping hand from missus. Washington, D.C., Aug. 18. Working without pay, Mrs. Elmer F. Andrews, wife of the newly appointed Wage-hour Administrator, is helping her husband organize his new office force which has already been swamped with thousands of letters from employers. Administrator Andrews looks on while his wife sorts the mail in this photograph. Mrs. Andrew is no novice at government work, having served in the chemical warfare service during the World War days, 81838

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.)