Harris & Ewing photos from the 1930s

W.S. Farish, President of Standard Oil of N.J. & W.T. Holliday, President of Standard Oil of Ohio

W.E. Reynolds, Fed. Works Agency

Wages an Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleigh Hotel to try to establish a minimum wage above the present 25 cents an hour. Left to right -p- Louis E. Kirstein. Chairman of Committee. Sidney Hillman, Gen. President of Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, well known in C.I.

Wages an Hour Div. of Apparel Industry Committee met today at Raleigh Hotel to try to establish a minimum wage above the present 25 cents an hour. Lft. to rt. Joseph P. McCurdy, President of Maryland Fed. of Labor. Arthur J. Patton, retired employer. Charles Ray, retired manufacturer and former me

Wage-Hour Administrator and family. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. Wage-Hour Administrator and Mrs. Elmer Andrews dining at a local hotel with their youngsters on New Year's night. Left to right: William Andrews, a son, Administrator Andrews, Mrs. Andrews, and Jean Andrews, a daughter, 1-3-39

Waiting room (downstairs) Monument, Washington, D.C.

Waiting for the decision. Washington, D.C., Feb. 13. This study of former Rep. Thomas R. Amlie certainly does not indicate he is confident that the Senate will confirm his nomination as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission to which post he was appointed by President Roosevelt. This pic

Wall Streeter and occassional Administration Advisor opens new monopoly phase. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. W. Averill Harriman, Wall Street Financier and often an advisor to the Administration, together with his partner, J.P. Ripley, spent the morning before the TNEC's newest investigation into banki

Wallace greets new Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. Washington, D.C., Dec. 21. Secretary Henry A. Wallace congratulates Grover B. Hill of Gainesville, Texas, after he assumed his new post as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture today. Hill, formerly with the Tennessee Valley Authority, succeeds Har

Walter Goodspeed of Grand Rapids, Mich. Before profit sharing conf.

War Secretary welcomes Brazil's Chief of Staff. Washington, D.C., June 22. Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring warmly greets General Pedro Aurelio Goes Monteiro, Chief of Staff of the Brazilian Army, as they met today at the War Department

If we have to make speeches until morning!' Austin on Senate filibuster. Washington, D.C., July 1. The Senate met at noon yesterday and kept going until 1:53 the next morning. Reason was that a Republican bloc, opposed to allowing the President continued power to devalue the dollar and the Treasury

Washington Airport buildings to allow full vision over 750 acre landing field. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2. The model here being inspected by Col. Sumpter Smith, Chairman of the Washington National Airport Commission, shows a portion of the field as it will look upon completion. It shows the buildings

Washington Cathedral Vergers

Washington leaves home at Mt. Vernon for first inaugural. Mt. Vernon, Va. April 16. 'George Washington' is bid a fond adieu by his wife 'Martha' as he leaves his home today for New York City to repeat his first inaugural à of 150 years ago. Washington, portrayed by Denys Wortman, is traveling by a

Washington Senator listens. Washington, D.C., May 3. A new informal photograph of Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach of Washington in a listening pose

Washington turns out for open air music. Washington, D.C., July 12. Sitting on stone steps near the Lincoln Memorial here, and facing a barge moored in the Potomac River, thousands of Washingtonians turned out to listen to the first of a series of summer concerts by the Washington Symphony Orchestra

Washington whitened by heaviest snowfall in two years. Washington, D.C., Jan. 8. With a fall of 5.2 inches of snow, Washingtonians awoke this morning to find their Capital blanketed by the heaviest snowfall since 1938. This is a scene on Capitol Hill

Washington, D.C. June 26. Miss Katherine i.e. Katharine Lenroot, head of the Children's Bureau, and her assistant, Dr. Martha M. Eliot, today asked the Senate Finance Committee in executive session for increased grants for child and maternal welfare assistance. They testified in favor amendments s

Washington, D.C., A new informal photograph of Rep. J. William Ditter, Republican, of Pennsylvania

Washington, D.C., A new photograph of J. William Ditter, Republican representative from Pennsylvania

Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter of the United States Supreme Court

Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the United States Supreme Court

Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. Frank Murphy, Attorney General of the United States

Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. Harold Ickes, Secretary of Interior

Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the Treasury

Washington, D.C., Feb. 4. Dr. Ali Akbar Daftary, Charge D'Affaires for Iran, today took up his duties at the Iran Legation signaling reopening of official cordiality between Iran and this country. The Legation has been closed for two years following the recall of the then Iranian Minister, Ghaffar D

Washington, D.C., Feb. 17. A new informal picture of Senator John A. Danaher, republican of Connecticut, 2-17-39

Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. Rep. Melvin J. Maas, Republican of Minnesota and an ardent aviation enthusiast, was a speaker before the National Aviation Forum today at the Mayflower Hotel, 2-21-39

Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. Thomas H. Beck, President of the Crowell Publishing Co., snapped at the National Aviation Forum today at the Mayflower Hotel. He spoke on "Aviation in American Publications," 2-21-39

Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. Arthur Besse, President of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers which has a membership of more than 400 manufacturers of fabricated wool and fabrics, and represents approximately 80 percent of the wool manufacturers of woolen goods in the country do not favor the

Washington, D.C., July 5. Rep. Karl Stefans of Nebraska

Washington, D.C., July 5. A new informal photograph of Senator William J. Bulow, democrat, of Nebraska

Washington, D.C., July 5. Rep. Ross Collins, Democrat of Mississippi, from a recent informal photo

Washington, D.C., July 12. An informal picture of Sen. John G. Townsend, R., of Delaware

Washington, D.C., July 20. A new informal picture of Vice President Garner as he stepped from his car to the White House, 7/20/39

Washington, D.C., Dec. 9. A new and especially posed. of Rep. J. William Ditter, Republican, Pennsylvania

Washington, D.C., Dec. 14. Miss Helen Hironimus has been appointed by the Attorney General to Superintendent of the new Federal Institution for Women at Dallas, Texas. A graduate of the Washington College of Law, she has been Assistant Superintendent of the Federal Reformatory for Women at Alderson

. says NLRD criticism precipitated. by lack of federal mediation service. Washington, D.C., May 15. William M Leiseron, member of? the NLRB, told the Senate Education and. that much of the existing criticism of. could have been avoided by a more. federal mediation service.

Washington, D.C., March 17. A new informal picture of Rep. John J. Dempsey, Congressman-at-large from New Mexico, 3-17- 39

Washington, D.C., March 18. A new informal photo of Mrs. Stephen T. Earley, wife of the Presidential Secretary, 3-18- 39

Washington, D.C., March 27. A new informal photograph of Senator Joseph O'Mahoney of Wyoming. 3-27-39

Washington, D.C., March 27. California's Senator Sheridan Downey, elected in the last election to the U.S. Congress. this is a new informal photograph. 3-27-39

Washington, D.C., May 18, 1939. Alfred P. Sloan Jr., chairman of General Motors, before Monopoly Investigating Committee. He was questioned regarding methods used by large corporations in financing their own resources

Washington, D.C., May 23. Judge Wiley Rutledge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia was a White House caller today

Washington, D.C., May 29. A new informal picture of Col. Albert G. Love, Medical Corps., United States Army

Washington, D.C., June 15. A new informal photograph of Senator William H. Smathers, democrat of New Jersey. He was photographed during a session of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee

Washington, D.C., June 15. Senator James F. Byrnes, Dem., S.C., photographed today as he addressed the Senate Finance Committee

Washington, D.C., June 30. A new photograph of Walter G. Campbell, of the Food and Drug Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Washington, D.C., July 7. A recent pose of E.F. Bartlet, Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits, Treasury Department

Washington, D.C., May 25. A new informal photograph of Sen. Charles Tobey, republican, of New Hampshire

Washington, D.C., Nov. 6. Eugene Grace, left, President of Bethlehem Steel Corp., and F.A. Shick, Vice President and Comptroller of the same corporation, were interested spectators at today's session of the National Monopoly Committee

Washington, D.C., Nov. 11. A new informal picture of Edmund M. Toland, Counsel for the Special House Committee now investigating the National Labor Relations Board

Ways & Means Committee room, House Office Bldg., 2-27-39

Welles named Chairman of the Pan American Committee to study war economic problems. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, shown here talking to Dr. Esteban Jaramillo, delegate from Columbia, who was made Vice Chairman, today was unanimously elected Chairman of the Inter-A

Wendell Willkie testifying - May 17 1939

Wendell Wilkie, Pres. of the Commonwealth & Southern Corp. appearing before House Military Affairs Subcommittee, urging approval of Norris Bill so that the securities of the Tennessee Electric & Power Co. 'will not be totally destroyed'

West Virginia Senator. Washington. D.C., Jan. 16. A new informal photograph of Senator Matthew M. Neely, Democratic of West Virginia. He is chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, 1/16/39

What's a fellow to do?' Washington, D.C., Nov. 8. A policeman whose beat is on Washington's waterfront seems puzzled over how he is going to enforce the restrictions in the sign, especially as applied to seagulls. Maybe the seagulls don't read or believe in signs

Whispered advice from counsel. Washington, D.C., Jan. 12. Prof. Felix Frankfurter, Supreme Court Nominee, gets a bit of whispered advice from his counsel Dean Acheson, left, just before taking the stand today before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee to answer questions as to his fitness for the High