Will H. Hays, former Chairman of the Republican Nat'l Comm. and Postmaster General, under Pres. Harding testified before the Senate Comm. investigating the teapot dome oil leases. Hays emphatically devised that Harry Sinclair donated 75,000 shares of oil stock to the G.O.P. but admitted that the Repub. Nat'l Comm. accepted about $75,00 from Sinclair to help wipe out the $1,600,000 deficit that occured during the last campaign
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A black and white photo of a group of men, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
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Date based on date of negatives in same range.
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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