Reports to Soviet embassy of search for missing transpolar flyers. Washington, D.C., Sept. 13. Jimmy Mattern, noted flyer, leaving the Soviet Embassy today after reporting on his search for the six Russian Polar Flyers lost far above the Arctic Circle. Mattern told embassy officials he is convinced the flyers are dead and lost forever in the rugged ice wastes of the Arctic. 91337
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A group of men standing next to each other, 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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