Soothes anxious relatives of American citizens in China. Washington, D.C., Aug. 20. Worried citizens calling the State Department these days to inquire about the safety of relatives and friends in the China danger zone are connected with Mrs. Madge Blessing, in charge of the "Welfare and Whereabouts File," Divison of Foreign Service Administration of the Department. When an inquiry comes in for information about an american in the danger zone, Mrs. Blessing makes out a card with the name of the individual about whom the inquiry was made and that of the person calling. A cable inquiry goes to the American Consul in the area. A reply back to the State Department is usually received in a couple of days, 82037
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A black and white photo of a woman sitting at a desk, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
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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