Senators go in for heavy reading. Members of the Senate are doing some serious and extensive reading these days, in studying the report of President Hoover's Commission on Law Enforcement, better known as the Wickersham Report. The photograph shows Sen. George W. Norris of Nebraska, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee which will consider the report, trying to find out what it is all about, 12331
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A man sitting at a desk reading a book, 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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