Smithsonian receives first farm tile. Washington, D.C., May 6. Dr. C.G. Abbott of the Smithsonian Institute (left) and Professor B.B. Ross (right) Agriculture Engineer of Cornell University who dug up the 190 year old sections from the John Johnston Farm on the shore of Seneca Lake, Seneca County, New York. This tile works so well that some of the tile lines are still in use. This tile is of the old horeshoe variety, and laid in 1835, 561937
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Two men standing next to each other in a room, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection on the negative or negative sleeve.
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 four.
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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