Harris & Ewing photos from the 1930s

Mail sack at G.P.O. Providence, R.I.

Mailing.,000,000 unemployment questionnaires daily, they are distributing thru the Post Offices throughout the U.S.

Mail order head at White House conference. Washington, D.C., Nov. 10. Robert E. Wood, President of Sears-Roebuck was in a White House conference today with President Roosevelt, federal officials and other business men to discuss a home building program planned for next year. 11/10/37

Majority Leader at the press conference. Washington, D.C. Jan. 2. Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas who is the majority leader of the Senate telling the reporters that Congress is going to regulate wages and hours even if necessary to pass a Constitutional amendment. Is this the rebirth of the N.R.A.

Majority Senate leaders press conference. Washington, D.C. Jan. 2. Joe Robinson, the Senator from Arkansas who is the majority leader of the Senate held the first press conference this year. Sen. Robinson said that the principle problems confronting the coming session of Congress are neutrality, bud

Making the boss ready. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. Rep. Michael Kirwan, new Democratic member of the House from Ohio, is given the final touch from his Secretary, Mrs. Roberta Messerly, before posing for the cameramen

Making tapestry is hobby of second U.S. Woman envoy. Washington, D.C., April 21. Weaving tapestry is the favorite hobby of Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, recently appointed U.S. Minister to Norway by President Roosevelt. She is the second woman to named a U.S. Envoy by the President. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen

Making prints for $3,000,000 map. Grover M. Plew, AAA laboratory worker, making the finished photographic prints which go into the finished map now being put together by the AAA. Approximately one-third of the entire land surface of the United States is being photographed from the air for the map. 7

Map depicts significant story on pickup in American industry. Washington, D.C. March 30. Tow lines on this chart hanging in the office of Isador Lubin, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, tell a significant story of the pickup in American Industry since 1933. Mr. Lubin points

Many errors found in Department of Justice mural. Washington, D.C., Aug. 17. Aides of Attorney General Cummings are taking great delight these days in criticizing the realism of several of the murals which. Boughe ?, New York artist painted for the new Department of Justice building. Miss Marg

Marines playing for Inauguration at Capitol

Maritime board holds first conference. Washington, D.C., April 16. The Maritime Commission which was just confirmed by the Senate yesterday met this morning for their first conference. This is the permanent Commission. Left to right: Thomas M. Woodward; Edawrd C. Moran, Jr.; Chairman Joseph P. Kenne

Maritime Commission opens bids for new combination passenger and cargo liner. Washington, D.C., April 1. Taking its first major step toward developing the American Merchant Fleet, the new federal maritime Commission opened bids today for the construction of a combination passenger and cargo liner to

Maritime Commission chairman. Washington, D.C., Dec. 3. Joseph P. Kennedy, Chairman of the U.S. Maritime Commission, as he recently appeared before a Congressional committee. 12/3/37

Maritime head urges stabilization of employer-employee relationship. Washington, D.C., Dec. 8. Appearing before the Senate Education- Labor and Commerce Committees today, Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy of the U.S. Maritime Commission, urged stabilization of employer-employee relationship in the Merchan

Marquis Childs, correspondant St. Louis Post Dispatch

Market scenes: Market pix for News Week

Market scenes: Bethesda, MD. Cooperative markets

Marshall A. Musick before Civil Liberties

Marsha Hunt 1937

Martha McPherson, Secretary to the Secretary of War Harry Woodring

Martin A. Leibold, retouching and correcting negative of aeronautical chart

Mary Huss, Secretary to Sury ? Wallace

Marvin McIntyre, accepting cape from Polish boy scouts for the president

Massachusetts Senator. Washington D.C. A new and Informal picture of United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts. a former newspaperman, Senator Lodge is one of the youngest members of the Senate, having just reached his 34th birthday

Massachusetts Senator. Washington, D.C., June 3. Senator David I. Walsh, Democrat of Massachusetts, pictured as he attended a Joint Session of the House and Senate Labor Committees, 6/3/37

Massachusetts Senator. Washington, D.C., June 19. A new informal picture of the Senior Senator from Massachusetts, David I. Walsh, Democrat, 6/19/37

Masons parade for sesquicentennial. Grand Master Paul B. Cromelin; Senator William E. Borah, Idaho; Rep. Sol Bloom, New York

Maurice Duperrey and Sec. of Commerce Daniel Roper

May be new majority leader. Washington D.C. July 20. A deep thinker is Senator Alben W. Barley of Kentucky, who with Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, is an outstanding candidate for the post of Senate Majority Leader to succeed the late Senator Joseph T. Robinson, the Senator posed for this pict

May get post of Comptroller General. Washington, D.C. Aug. 18. Charles M. Galloway, now Counsel of the General Accounting Office, is believed to have the inside track for the post of Comptroller General recently vacated by John R. McCarl, whose 15-year term expired. Galloway, a former newspaperman o

May Mullholland and dog

Mayor Angelo Rossi, of San Francisco and Mayor Antonia Beruff Mendista(?), of Havana

Mayor Angelo J. Rossi of San Francisco Nov. 15. 1937 (cropped)

Mayor LaGuardia relaxing. Washington D.C. In the Cocktail Room of the Mayflower Hotel the New York Mayor is shown in a moment of relaxation with two of his aides. Left to right: Paul V. Betters, Secretary of the Mayor's conference held here in Washington and Mayor Fiorello Laguardia of New York City

Mayor of Boston. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Frederick W. Mansfield, Mayor Of Boston, presided today at the opening session of the Third Annual Mayors Conference today at the Mayflower Hotel. Mayors of 150 cities were in attendance. 11/15/37

McAdoo to propose substitute for administration Supreme Court bill. Washington, D.C., May 11. Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, Democrat of California, is due to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tomorrow and explain his proposed substitute for the administration Supreme Court plan. He is pic

Mayor E. B. Erwin of Salt Lake City, 1937

McCary T. Grayson & Tallulah Bankhead

McSWEENEY, JOHN. REPRESENTATIVE. PORTRAIT

Measuring relative humidity by radio. Washington, D.C. June 9. The hair element for measuring relative humidity in radio weather sounding balloons has proved innacurate because of very slow response at the cold temperatures encountered in the upper atmosphere. F.W. Dunmore, Radio Engineer of Nationa

Medical room, Senate Office Bldg.

Meeting of New York's mayor and housing administrator ends in love feast. Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. What promised to be a red-hot meeting between U.S. Housing Administrator Nathan Straus (left) and New York Mayor Fiorella La Guardia took the form of a love feast before the confab ended. Straus said

Member of FCC. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. Norman S. Case, member of the Federal Communications Commission, was snapped in this unconventional pose as he attended a meeting of the commission yesterday. 10/7/37

Members of the National Labor Relations Board J. Warren Madder, Chairman, on the left and Edwin S. Smith, member, right

Memeographing press reports & decisions at the Nat. labor Relations Board

Memorial for U.S.S. Lincoln. Washington, D.C. May 31. A memorial tablet was unveiled at the Navy Department today in rememberance of the USS Lincoln that was torpedoed off the French Coast during the World War, the ceremonies were attended by officers who served on the ship during the war, Miss Jane

Mexican Embassy, 2829 16th Street

Michael J. Kirwan 1937-1-7

Michael MacWhite 1937

Michigan Congressman tries hand again. Washington D.C. A former telegrapher, Rep. John Lueke, new Democratic member of the House from Michigan, just couldn't resist tapping out a few words as he passes through the House press gallery today

Mich. Justice-elect gets new deal job. Washington, D.C., May 7. Thomas F. McAllister of Michigan was the victor in a state-wide election last April for an eight year term on the bench of the Michigan Supreme Court. McAllister starts his term next January, while he is waiting to take his position he

Michigan Peach Queen arrives. Washington, D.C., Aug. 31. The newly crowned Peach Queen of Michigan, Lois Beal, waves a greeting as she arrived by plane in the Capitol today to deliver a basket of the fruit to the White House. Miss Beal comes from Romeo, Michigan

Midland Hotel. Ladies Auxillary of the Army & Navy Union

Midshipmen on parade. Annapolis, MD May 31. Annapolis midshipmen on parade during June week excercises at the Naval Academy, 5/31/37

Midshipmen donate dolls for poor kiddies of Capitol. Washington D.C., Dec 22. Hundreds of midshipmen from Annapolis enroute to their homes for the holidays arrived in Washington today, their arms loaded with dolls for the poor kiddies of the city. The dolls were dontated to the doll house in the ce

Middleweight champion expert rope skipper. Washington D.C. July 16. Rope skipping plays an important part in the training program of middleweight champion Freddied Steele, as he prepares for his coming battle on July 20 with Hobo Williams at Griffith Stadium. The championship will be at stake in the

Milton Katz, counsel for S.E.C.

Mine workers take new quarters. Washington, D.C., Dec. 27. The accounting division pictured above, was the first group of the United Mine Workers of America office force to establish. in the new U.M.W. building at 15th & Eye Sts. The building which was formerly occupied by the University Club

Ministry against Supreme Court Bill. Washington, D.C., April 16. The Right Rev. James E., Episcopal Bishop of Washington, appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bishop argued that the attacks on the Supreme Court had weakened the respect of the people, particularly of youth, for