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White House personnel fingerprinted following suggestion of the President. Washington, D.C., March 21. Recently the President suggested at his press conference that everyone in the White House, including himself, be fingerprinted and today the fingerprinting was started. Left to right: Isaac Avery, of the Carpenter shop, Mollie D. Somerville, or Mrs. Roosevelt's Stenographic staff, Finger printer E.A. Schurman, Secret Service Agent, E.L. Lewis of the Carpenter shop, Muriel Lund, Clerk, Sgt. Ole Jacobson, Acting Captain Herbert L. Marcy - the latter two of the White House Police Force - and Wilson Searles, Usher. 3-21-39
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A group of people standing around a table, 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 five.
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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