U.S. Senator honored for war service. Secretary of War Weeks pinning the Distinguished Service Medal on Senator Rice W. Means, of Colorado, for gallantry in action in the Spanish-American war. Senator Means earned the decoration in 1898, when a Second Lieutenant of the 1st Colorado Volunteer Infantry. In the group, (left to right) Maj. General John L. HInes, Ch.. of Staff, Secretary Weeks, Senator Means and Mrs. Means
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A group of men standing next to each other, 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 eight.
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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