Secretary Jardine lays cornerstone of New Department of Agriculture building. The names of every employee together with reports on activities and finances of the Department of Agriculture, were deposited this morning in the cornerstone of the department's new $2,000,000 administration building. Secretary Jardine is shown laying the cornerstone assisted by Senator Charles L. McNary and Rep. Gilbert N. Haugen, authors of McNary-Haugen bill
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A group of people standing around a stone statue, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
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On sleeve: Watch Your Credit Line.
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 seven.
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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