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Secretary of War receives autographed balls and bats from Babe Ruth for citizens military training camps. Babe Ruth started on his annual job today at the Washington Ball Park--shot of autographing hundreds of balls and bats to be awarded as prizes at the Citizens Military Camps all over the country this summer. Secretary of War James W. Good is witnessing the autographing of the first bat

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Secretary of War receives autographed balls and bats from Babe Ruth for citizens military training camps. Babe Ruth started on his annual job today at the Washington Ball Park--shot of autographing hundreds of balls and bats to be awarded as prizes at the Citizens Military Camps all over the country this summer. Secretary of War James W. Good is witnessing the autographing of the first bat

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A group of men standing next to each other on a field, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection

Title from unverified caption data on negative or negative sleeve.
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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01/01/1929
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united states
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html

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