Harris & Ewing photos from the 1930s
6,354 photos, in date order; 2,341–2,400 on this page. The studio gave its photographs to the Library of Congress without copyright restrictions. About the collection
New S.E.C. Chairman holds first press conference. Washington, D.C., Sept. 22. William Orville Douglas, newly elected chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission held his first press conference today in Washington. Chairman Douglas is shown at the head of the table surrounded by photographers and
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New SEC member takes oath. Washington, D.C., Dec. 27. Declaring himself to be neither a radical nor a conservative but an enthusiastic "new dealer", Jerome N. Frank today took the oath of office as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Frank, a former legal counsel for the WPA and the
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New SEC member. Washington, D.C., Dec. 27. A new informal portrait of Jerome N. Frank who was sworn in as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning. Frank, formerly of the AA and WPA, succeeds James M. Landis who resigned his post to become Dean of the Harvard Law School. John
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New secretary of Federal Communications Commission. Washington, D.C., April 29. Thomas J. Slowie, of Iowa, has been named to the much sought-after post of secretary of Federal Communications Commission. Slowie succeeds Herbert L. Pettey, who resigned sometime ago to direct a New York radio station.
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New Surgeon General of the Navy. Washington, D.C., March 16. Rear Admiral Percival S. Rossiter, newly appointed Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy, a new and unpublished photograph
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New Solicitor U.S. Department of Labor. Washington D.C. Gerard D. Reilly, of Boston, has just been nominated by President Roosevelt to be Solicitor for the Department of Labor. He has been acting Solicitor since March 1 and now succeeds Charles A. Gregory, of Illinois, as Head of the Legal Division
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New Supreme Court appointee and wife. Washington, D.C., Aug. 12. Senator and Mrs. Hugo L. Black photographed at the Capitol today shortly after Black's nomination as a member of the Supreme Court was received in the Senate chamber. The Blacks have three children, Hugo, Jr., Sterling, and Josephine
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New Social Security board member. Washington, D.C., Aug. 24. Mrs. Mary W. Dewson, Chairman of the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee, assumed her new duties today as a member of the Social Security Board, 8/24/37
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New U.S. Commissioner of immigration takes oath. Washington, D.C., Aug. 26. James L. Houghteling, newly appointed U.S. Commissioner of Immigration, today took the oath of office and assumed his duties. In the photograph, left to right: J.C. Watts, Assistant Chief Clerk of Labor Department, who admin
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New Special Assistant to Attorney General. Washington, D.C., Aug. 30. Vincent M. Miles, newly appointed Special Assistant to the Attorney General, is shown at his desk shortly after taking the oath of office. He is a former member of the Social Security Board, 8/30/37
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New U.S. Envoy to Norway. Washington, D.C., April 21. America's new Envoy to Norway, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, leaving her home "Uplands" today for the offices of the Democratic National Committee of which she is a member. Mrs. Harriman, who is expected to leave for post shortly, is shown with her fa
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New U.S. Envoy to Norway. Washington, D.C., April 23. Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, recently named American Minister to Norway by President Roosevelt, photographed at her home "Uplands" in Washington today. Early confirmation of her nomination by the Senate is expected, 4/23/1937
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New Vice Presidents General of D.A.R. Washington, D.C., April 23. The newly elected Vice Presidents General of the Daughters of the American Revolution. In the front row, left to right: Mrs. W.H. Belk, of North Carolina; Mrs. Frank Dick, of Maryland; Mrs. William A. Becker, President General of the
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New U.S. envoy to Cuba guest of Cuban Ambassador. Washington D.C., July 15. J. Butler Wright, new U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, is greeted by Senor Dr. Pedro Martinez Fraga, Cuban Ambassador, as he arrived at the Cuban Embassy where he was guest at luncheon today, 7/15/37
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New U.S. Envoy to Honduras. Washington D.C., July 16. John D. Erwin, Washington Correspondent for the Nashville Tennessean, has been named U.S. Minister to Honduras by President Roosevelt, 7/16/37
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New uniform for U.S. Treasury guards. Washington, D.C., Aug. 26. Neat but not gaudy is the scheme of the new uniform of the U.S. Treasury guards. Blue shirt, blue uniform trousers with Sam Browne belt replaces the odd trousers and shirts of many colors formerly worn by the guards while on duty. A ne
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New U.S. Housing chief. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Nathan Straus, New York housing expert who was recently named by President Roosevelt to the $10,000 post as Chief of the new U.S. Housing Administration. Straus is a son of the Philanthropist and former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, 10/20/37
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New York Mayor advocates giving control of commercial aviation to 100. Washington, D.C., April 12. Appearing before the Senate Interstate Subcommittee today, New York City's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia advocated enactment of the McCarran Bill to transfer control over commercial aviation from the Depar
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New York Senator. Washington, D.C., June 11. Strong pressure is being brought to bear on Senator Robert F. Wagner in efforts to have him run against Mayor LaGuardia in the next New York mayorality race, 6/11/37
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New York Mayor urges action on housing bill before adjournment. Washington, D.C., Aug 3. Asserting that thousands of inhabitants are living in cities in "firetraps" and "dangerous surroundings" Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, appealed to th
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New York Mayor and NLRB chairman. Washington, D.C., Nov. 16. No doubt these two gentleman, Mayor Fiorello Laguardia of New York City, and J. Warren Madden, Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, were discussing the Wagner Labor Relations Act when this picture was snapped at the U.S. Confere
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New York Stock Exchange Head at Senate hearing. Washington D.C., March 2. Charles R. Gay, President of the New York Stock Exchange, seems in a pensive mood as he listens to testimony during hearing of the Senate Railroad Financing Committee today. Gay is slated to be questioned by the Committee eith
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New York Stock Exchange Head at Senate hearing. Washington, D.C., March 2. Charles R. Gay, President of the New York Stock Exchange, seems in a pensive mood as he listens to testimony during hearing of the Senate Railroad Financing Committee today. Gay is slated to be questioned by the Committee eit
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New Zealand Minister of Finance arrives. Washington D.C., July 12. Walter Nash, Minister of Finance, Customs, and Marketing of New Zealand, as he was greeted on his arrival today by H.O. Chalkley, (left) Counselor of the British Embassy. Mr. Nash, accompanied by a party of technical commercial aid
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Newcomer from Illinois. Washington, D.C., Jan. 6. Rep. Lewis Long, new Democrat member of the House from Illinois
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Newly elected heads of Gorgas Memorial Institute. Washington, D.C., Dec. 10. Dr. George Crile, Head of the Cleveland Ohio Clinic, right, was elected President of the Gorgas memorial Institute of Tropical Diseases at Red Cross National Headquarters this morning. With him are Admiral Cary T. Grayson
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Newsmen get dope from Senate majority after White House discussion in sit-strikes. Washington, D.C., March 27. Majority leader of the Senate, Senator Joseph T. Robinson discusses possible congressional action on the sit-down strike crisis with reporters following a White House conference today. Afte
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Newsmen hear Russian Ambassador. Washington, D.C., April 22. Russian Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky speaking before the National Press Club today attacked those who criticize the Soviet Union because it has certain elements of dictatorship. The Union he said, "is fundamentally on the side of democ
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Newsmen kept at a distance. Annapolis, MD, June 25. A roped-off area, guarded by a burly marine, was used to prevent any of the overzealous newspapermen from stowing away on the boats leaving here for Jefferson Island where President Roosevelt's holding a three-day political confab with democratic m
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Newsreel cameraman describes Chicago strike riots to Senate Civil Liberties Committee. Washington, D.C., July 2. Orlando Lippert, cameraman for Paramount News, describing to the Senate Civil Liberties Committee today the scenes he photographed for his reel at the Memorial Day strike riots at the sou
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Newsmen await result of election of senate majority leader. Washington D.C., July 21. Newspaper men and photographers. waiting the report of the vote on the senate majority leader's job, in a secret session the democrats elected Senator Albin Barkley of Kentucky Majority Leader of the Senate, b
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Newsmen stalk senators as Senate Judiciary Committee meeting adjourns. Washington D.C., July 22. Newspapermen stalking members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today as they emerged from the extraordinary session of the Committee. In the photograph, left to right, can be seen the profiles of Senato
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Newsmen quiz Snell on sale of Demo. handbooks. Washington, D.C., Aug. 12. Reporters were wa. for House Minority Leader Bertrand Snell a. left the House Rules Committee today charging before the Committee that the sales. books on the Democratic National Convention. "disgraceful
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Newsmen quiz Japanese Ambassador at press club luncheon. Washington, D.C., Oct. 14. In an off-the-record appearance as a luncheon guest of the National Press Club today, Japanese Ambassador Hirosi Saito virtually underwent a cross-examination from more than 450 newsmen and Government Officials in at
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Newsreel cameraman describes sinking of Panay to Assistant Navy head. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31. Norman Alley, intrepid newsreel cameraman who was aboard the U.S.S. Panay shooting pictures while the gunboat was being bombed by the Japanese in the Yangtze River, December 12, describing his experience
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Newsmen dine French Ambassador. Washington, D.C., May 13. French Ambassador Georges Bonnet apparently enjoyed his lunch today at the National Press Club where he was a guest of the members. In a short speech following the luncheon Ambassador Bonnet defended the Franco-Soviet military alliance as a f
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Nine-Power Treaty. Washington D.C., Oct. 14. The signature page of the. passed? Nine Power Treaty signed at the. conference at Washington in 1922. Hyde Parks says President Roosevelt has. to send a representative to the Nine Power. at Brussels which is expected to conve
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Uncle Sam's color expert. Washington, D.C., Sept. 20. Miss Dorothy Nickerson is one person who can't afford to go color-blind. She is the color analyst of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and measures color as a means of grading and standardizing many agricultural products such as cotton, hay, fru
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No midget lap-sitting for Speaker Bankhead. Washington, D.C., April 30. "Lap-sitting is out" Speaker Bankhead today as he greeted a troupe of circus midgets from his home state of Alabama at the Capitol. An enterprising photographer sought to repeat the J.P. Morgan act of a few years ago (?) the n
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Norman S. Case smokes a stogie
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North Dakota Solon. Washington, D.C., July 29. A new and informal picture of Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, 7/29/37
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Norse leader broadcasts to home country. Washington, D.C., Oct. 27. Shortly after arriving in the Capital today, Dr. Halvdan Koht, (left) Minister of Foreign Affairs of Norway, delivered a radio speech to his home country from the State Department, following the broadcast his Excellency went into a
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North Carolina senator wants U.S. boats withdrawn from Chinese waters. Washington, D.C., Dec. 13. Speaking in the Senate today on the sinking of the U.S. gunboat Panay, Senator Robert Reynolds of North Carolina declared that the time might come when the U.S. would regret its failure to withdraw gunb
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Now let me think. Washington, D.C. Jan. 15. Francis Ward Paine, Senior Partner in Paine, Weber and Company, Boston and New York brokers in a moment of concentration before answering one of the questions that was fired at him by Sen. Wheeler at the railroad hearing at the Capitol today
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Not peppermint candy but an airplane strut. Washington, D.C., May 3. This piece of aluminum alloy which is used in airplane construction is shown after being in the torque machine. The pieces to be tested are locked in the vise and twisted until they break. This piece when started the lines on the p
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Noted Japanese lawyer. Washington, D.C., July 1. Dr. Rokuichiro Masujima, internationally famous lawyer and legal advisor to the Japanese Ambassador to London, snapped at the party last night in honor of Dr. H.H. Kung, Chinese Finance Minister, at the Chinese Embassy, 7/1/37
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Now directing activites of Labor Non-Partisan League. Washington D.C., July 23. Eli Oliver, executive Vice President of the Labor Non-Partisan League, is now directing the activities of the organization following the resignation of Senator George L. Berry as its. Berry resigned to give his enti
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O.H. Baily at Capitol
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Off to Roosevelt love feast. Annapolis, MD, June 25. Cabinet members and House leaders were among those catching the first boat here today leaving for the Jefferson Island Democratic Club where President Roosevelt is staging a three-day pow-wow for the Democratic legislators. Waving a goodbye as the
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Off for Jefferson Island. Annapolis, MD, June 25. Loaded to the gunwale with members of the Cabinet and Democratic members of the Senate and House, the first boat shoves off for Jefferson Island where President Roosevelt will give the politicians a first-hand account of his seven-point legislative p
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Off-the-record huddle. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. Marriner Eccles, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, does a little counting on his fingers as he drives home a point to Senator Pat Harrison, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. They were snapped while attending a conference between the admin
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Off with the yoke of Uncle Sam depicted in post office mural, is charge of Arctic explorer. Washington, D.C., Sept. 10. Vilhjamur Stefansson, the Artic explorer, today charged that artist Rockwell Kent had painted on the wall in the Post Office Building here an exhortation to Puerto Rico to throw of
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Officials at opening of Federal Reserve Bldg., Oct 15, 1937. Wayne C. Taylor, Asst. Secy. of Treasury; Roy C. Young, Pres. of Fed. Reserve Bank of Boston; Henry Morgenthau, Secy. of Treasury; John K. McKee, member of Board of Governors of Fed. Reserve System.
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Officials at opening of Federal Reserve Bldg., 10/15/37
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Old Rail telegraphers now members of Congress. Washington, D.C., Jan. 9. Not so many years ago these two gents were both "pounding brass" on the Burlington. Now they are both members of Congress but still carry union cards in the Order of Railroad Telegaphers. Senator Ed Johnson, (left) new Democrat
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Oklahoma and Indiana bosses meet at Governors' luncheon. Washington, D.C. Governor James Berry of Oklahoma, (left) and Paul V. McNutt, former Governor of Indiana, meet at the housing luncheon given for state Governors today at the Mayflower Hotel
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Old swears in the new. Washington, D.C., Aug. 9. C.E. Maceachran, (right) retiring Chief Clerk of the State Department, administering the oath of office to his successor, Edward Yardley. Yardley was formerly an attorney in the American Agency of the General Claims Commission. The post of Chief Clerk
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Old friends meet at federal Reserve building dedication. Washington, D.C., Oct. 20. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the war-time President who founded the Federal Reserve System, chats with Senator Carter Glass of Virginia as they attend the ceremonies dedicating the new Federal Reserve building today
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On job. Washington, D.C. Jan. 19. Charles Edison, son of the famous inventor and new Assistant Secretary of the Navy, pictured at his desk today. He was inducted into office yesterday
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