United States Secret Service gets new chief. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31. William H. Moran, retiring Chief of the United States Secret Service, congratulates his successor Frank J. Wilson, whose appointment was announced today at the Treasury. Morgenthau is in the center. Moran has spent 54 years in the Service and the last 19 as its Chief. Wilson, who has had a distinguished career in the government, has been Acting Assistant Chief of the Secrect Service since Sept. 8. Prior to that he was the "Ace" of the Intelligence Unit of the Internal Revenue, his greatest achievments being recorded in connection with the conviction of Al Capone for income tax evasions, and in connection with the kidnapping of the Lingbergh baby
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A black and white photo of two men shaking hands, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
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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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