Harris & Ewing photos from the 1920s

Some shot! 410 out of possible 500. Don't make any bets with this gentleman concerning your ability to hit the bull's eye. He is Sergeant Alfred Anderson, Company D, 12th U.S. Infantry, now stationed at Camp Meade, Md., and he is the first soldier in the Army to qualify as an expert machine gunner u

SUPREME COURT, U.S. TAFT COURT *The Taft Court in 1925: **Seated in the front row are justices James Clark McReynolds, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Howard Taft (chief justice), Willis Van Devanter, and Louis Brandeis. **Standing in the back row are justices Edward Terry Sanford, George Sutherland

Swearing in with William D. Mitchell

Telephone machinery?

The Associated Chamber of Commerce of. Imperial County, California, and the Yuma, Arizona, Chamber. Commerce, invited President Coolidge to attend the California. Arizona highway celebration to commemorate the completion of. last link in the only all the year highway from the Atl

The amaryllis show. Among the first to visit the 1925 Amaryllis Show. by the Department of Agriculture was the new Secretary. Wm. M. Jardine, who is shown in the photograph

The Brazilian mission, headed by Gen. Pershing, called upon Pres. Coolidge, March 18th. Front row, left to right: former Rep. Fred C. Hicks, Gen. Pershing, Admiral J.H. Dayton. Back row, left to right: R.E. Knox, Secy., Commander John R. Beardall, U.S.N., Major Ed. Bowditch and Major John Quekemeyer

The Bryan brothers visit the White House, March 18th. Left to right, William Jennings Bryan,. Bryan, and former Gov. Charles Bryan of Nebraska

The famous screen star Harold Lloyd, visited Washington, D.C. Unannounced, May 16th and with his wife and Will Hays, czar of the movies made a visit to the Navy Yard. The picture was made in front of the President's Yacht, "The Mayflower." Left to right: Captain Adolphus Andrews of the "Mayflower"

The Centre College football team, of Kentucky, in Washington to play Georgetown University, called on President Coolidge, today, Nov. 14th. In the center of the group can be seen the President and Senator Ernst, of Kentucky

The fifteenth anniversary of the founding of th. Scout organization in America will be observed throughout the country on February, 15th. A picked troop of scouts wi. and national officers called on President Coolidge, who. Honorary President of the Boy Scouts, today at the White House.

The first meeting of the commission to arrange for the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of George Washington to be held in 1932, took place today, Feb. 16th at the White House with President Coolidge as chairman. The committee includes four members appointed by the Senate, four from

The first piano to be transported by airplane,. brought from New York to Washington recently, was. d to the Friendship Settlement House, Washington,. afternoon, May 19th., by Mrs. Coolidge. Mrs. Coolidge. e this institution herself, for the gift

The new Minister from Paraguay, Eusebiro Ayala, and former President of his country, snapped upon his arrival at Washington, with his wife and son Roger, at Wardman Park Hotel

The new French Ambassador to the United States, who succeeds the late Dean of the Diplomatic Corps at Washington, Mr. Jules Jusserand, and his family leaving the French Embassy shortly after their arrival. Left to right are: Irene, Madame Daeschner, the Ambassador and Antonette Daeschner

The new amphibian airplane, that is a. water and land was inspected by a Congressional com. Bolling Field, Monday, January 19. The machine was. Grover Loenig, of New York. Left.

The new amphibian airplane, that is at home both. water and land was inspected by a Congressional Committee at Bolling Field, Monday, January 19. The machine was designed by Grover Loenig, of New York. Left to right in the group, standing before the neew plane are: Major H.B. Clagett, Commander

The president's official greeters. These two gentlemen, Sergt. Ernest M. Seaman, (left) and Sergt. C.L. Dalrymple, of the White House police force, are the president's official greeters. These are the men who must first talk to each an every one of the 10,000 visitors. call at the White House e

The new Minister Fr. shortly after his arrival in.

The new Egyptian envoy and his wife arrive in Washington. Mahmoud Samy Pasha and his wife snapped at the Legation, 1815 Q St., shortly after their arrival in Washington. They landed in New York June 30th on the liner Majestic

The new Minister from Egypt to the United States photographed at his desk in the Legation at Washington. He is Mahmoud Samy Pasha and he arrived in New York June 30th with his wife aboard the liner Majestic

The wheels of the great government machine and of private business marked time today while thousands of employees and the departmental heads viewed the eclipse. Postmaster General New snapped as he was watching the eclipse with the aid of a photographic plate

The Serbian Minister, Dr. Tresich Pavichich, (left) at the White house today to present the famous Jugoslav viol. Zlatko Kalokovic, (right) to President Coolidge. The violin. is in this country on a concert tour

The Secretary of the Navy, Curtis D. Wilbur, (left) and Admiral C.T. Vogelson were callers today at the White House. The Admiral has just returned from Brazil where he helped to reorganize the Brazillian Navy

The rum war continues. Any thought that the rum war being waged along. coast has abeted or stopped may quickly be dispelled. e office of General Lincoln C. Andrews, assistant. f the Treasury, where he studies the "war zone" map. ng noting

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., former Secretary of the Navy and General William Mitchell, Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service appeared before the House Military Affairs committee, today, Feb. 17th. Roosevelt told the committee that aircraft was a supplementsupplementary arm of the National Defense and

This is the first picture to be made of the newly appointed French Ambassador to the United States, Emileux Daeschner, at his desk in the French Embassy, Washington. He succeeds the former Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Jules Jusserand. The picture was made, Jan. 26

These men whose names throw fear into the hearts of criminals in their respective countries paid their respects to President Coolidge, May 25th. They are, (left to right). Alcantara, Honduras, Inspector J. O'Conner, New York City;. L. Walter, White House Police, Inspector General C.H. McKi

Thomas P. Woodlock of New York, member of Interstate Commerce Commission, seated at his desk. Washington, D.C.

Those California homesick blues! That California smile returned when little homesick Corliss. Nolan, daughter of Congresswoman Mae. E. Nolan, discovered, with he. mother, real oranges growing on a real orange tree in the conservatories of the Department of Agriculture at Washington while a

Three Washington society buds in spectacle. The misses Beatrice McLean (left) debutant daug. Capt. and Mrs. Ridley McLean, Helen Thompson and Eugeni. LeJeune, (right) daughter of General and Mrs. John A. LeJ. members of the "Group of the Winds" who will take. human "Game of Mah Jong

To "shoot" the sun. Capt. Edward T. Pollock (left) and Capt. F.B. Littell, scientists of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, will ha. charge of the expedition to observe the total solar eclipse of. sun from a giant dirigible, "Los Angeles" on January, 24th

Tree planting ceremony to commemorate Mother's Day, with Raymond Thompson costumed as George Washington, and school girls costumed as state flowers, on grounds of U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

Tsuneo Matsudaira (detail)

Two men seated alongside a munitions shell from McCord & Co., one holding a model military plane

Two interesting members of the International Association. Police Chiefs who are visiting in Washington. George Pushkas,. chief of the Royal Hungarian State Police and Dr. John. rt, Captain of Hungarian police

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 Infantr

Urge that Shenanhoah Valley be made National. members of the Shenanhoah Valley Association who a. Washington to urge that legislation be passed making. Valley a National Park. They were photographed at the. House. In the group, (left to right) G.F. Pollock, Pre. Park Associati

Walter Johnson, star pitcher and veteran of the Wash. baseball team

William D. Mitchell at desk

William Green, President of the Federation. was a caller at the White House, Jan. 21

William H. Taft and group

William H. Taft, right, at automobile

William Jennings Bryan, who was a caller at the White House today was snapped as he was taking a "peek" at the eclipse thru a blackened glass. "It reminded him of the Democratic def. according to Bryan, "only temporary, for the sun will come out again"

Woman with gavel at White House, Washington, D.C.

Women wearing kimonos under cherry blossoms

Zachary, pitcher, Wash. baseball team

Aircraft at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C.

Airplane at Bolling Field, Washington, D.C.

Allen F. Moore (right) Republican National Committee from Illinois with former Representative Frank L. Smith who defeated Senator McKinley in the recent primaries in Illinois were White House callers yesterday, May 14th

Boy and girl at White House, Washington, D.C.

Boy with boxing gloves

Bureau of Standards. the apparatus shown in this photograph represents a simple and readily usable arrangement of the interferometer for standardizing indicators, extensometers, etc.

Calvin and Grace Coolidge

Calvin Coolidge and Camp Fire girl? group

Calvin Coolidge and group at White House, Washington, D.C.

Calvin Coolidge at Press Club corner stone laying

Calvin Coolidge and unidentified outside White House, Washington, D.C.

Calvin Coolidge, center; outside White House, Washington, D.C.

Calvin Coolidge with group in colonial dress outside White House, Washington, D.C.