Responsible for unemployment census. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. William L. Austin (left) Director of the U.S. Census Bureau and whose workers are tabulating the returns from the unemployment questionnaires, describes to Unemployment Census Director John D. Biggers the working of the special tabulating machine used to count the unemployed noses. Work of counting the unemployed returns was begun in the Capital today. 112437

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.)