Harris & Ewing photos from the 1930s
6,354 photos, in date order; 3,061–3,120 on this page. The studio gave its photographs to the Library of Congress without copyright restrictions. About the collection
3,000 hours on the air waves. Washington, D.C., June 27. Sec. of Agriculture Henry Wallace, speaking over the Farm and Home Hour today, todays broadcast marks the 3,000th hour on the air and makes it the world oldest radio program from the standpoint of hours on the air, 6/27/38
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35th Annual Convention of Rural Letter Carriers. Washington, D.C., Aug. 23. Raymond H. Combs, of Churchville. New York. President of the National Association of Rural Letter Carriers, left; congratulated by Postmaster General James A. Farley, upon the opening of the 35th Annual Convention of Rural L
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2nd annual convention, United Office & Pro. Workers of American, Burlington Hotel
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6,750 airplanes equal 15 Battleships--Cook. Washington, D.C., Feb. 25. Testifying before the House Naval Affairs Committee today, Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, Chief of the Navy Department Bureau of Aeronautics, declared that it would take 6,750 airplanes to give the same volume of fire in one hour o
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A & N Nurses Memorial
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60 per cent of Akron, O. population now on relief, Dies Committee told. Washington, D.C., Nov. 15. Testifying today before the House Committee Investigating Un-American Activities, C. Nelson Sparks, Akron, O., former Mayor and Chairman of a Law and Order League during the 1936 rubber strike, declare
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A Hepburn is new CIO aide. Washington, D.C., Jan. 8. Marian Hepburn, 19-year-old sister of Katherine the stage and movie star, has just taken a job with the United Federal Workers of America, a union of government employees affiliated with the CIO. Miss Hepburn is now in her third year at Bennington
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A movie kiss planted on Maryland Senator. Washington, D.C., Jan. 27. Following a reception by the Senators at the Capitol today, Eleanor Powell, movie and screen star, plants a daughterly goodbye kiss on the cheek of Senator George L. Radcliffe of Maryland. On the left is Ray Bolger, another dancing
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A Navy so strong other nations won't risk war with U.S., Edison tells house committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 26. Rep. Carl Vinson, (left) Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, chats with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison just before he (Edison) appeared before the committee to
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A motorcycle unit. Officer has his hand on the volume control which he has to attend, 10/38
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A Democrat wins again. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. John Janson, 16 yrs old, from Phoenix, Ariz., whose parents are both registered democrats, last night took first place in finals of a nation wide oratorical contest sponsored by the Young Republican national Federation. The youngest of eight finalists
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A George Stern, 1545 Falkland Lane, Silver Spring, MD., who in the last three years has developed a formula for a highly volatile fluid which vaporizes so rapidly that flames from the gases released will not burn as demonstrated by the picture. The secret formula's only value, he says, will be to pr
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A. Victor Donahey smokes indoors 1938
1938-05-18
A.F. of L. Head and daughter of Chinese Ambassador to appeal for relief for Chinese Citizens. Washington, D.C., May 13. President William Green of the American Federation of Labor and Miss Yoeh E. Wang, daughter of the Chinese Ambassador, discuss the relief of suffering Chinese civillians, as they p
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A red "hotbed" in Brooklyn College. Washington, D.C., Aug. 23. Congressional investigators heard testimony today that Brooklyn College, N.Y. "might quite fairly be labeled a hotbed of propaganda" and communist activity. Prof. Edward I. Fenlon of the College's Department of Philosophy made the assert
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A.A.A. Administrator. Washington, D.C., Sept. 22. A new and informal picture of H.R. Tolley, Administrator of the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, 9/22/38
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A sharp questioner. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. Hugh L. Cox, who as Special Assistant to the Attorney General is acting as one of the counsel for Joint Monopoly Committee, is proving a shrewd questioner at the daily hearings. Cox, left, is pictured quizzing J.H. McNash of Hazel-Atlas Glass Container
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A.F. of L. Head demands congressional action to meet current business recession. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. A.F. of L. President William Green today demanded that "prompt, immediate and effective" action be taken by Congress to meet the current business recession. The demand was made as Green was que
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A.F. of L. Head urges amendment to Wagner Act. Washington, D.C., March 22. American Federation of Labor President William Green today urged the Senate Education and Labor Subcommittee to amend the Wagner Bill guaranteeing collective baragaining in federal contracts to curtail the "discretionary powe
1938
A.T. & T. executive opposes profit sharing. Washington, D.C., Dec. 13. Appearing before the Senate Finance Subcommittee today, Charles P. Cooper, Vice President of A.T. & T., declared its opposition to profit sharing as national policy and condemned incentive taxation as 'unsold,' 12-13-38
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Ace passer and wrong way flyer meet. Washington, D.C., Aug. 11. Champions in their fields. Doug "Wrong Way" Corrigan, who was warmly welcomed in the Nation's Capitol, greets Sammy Baugh, Ace Passer of the Washington Redskins Professional Football team, at a reception at the National Press Club, 8/11
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Acting Czechoslovakian Minister listens to Hitler speech. Washington, D.C., Sept. 12. Dr. Karel Brejska, Charge d'Affaires and acting Minister in the absence of Minister Vladimir Hurban in Czechoslovakia, is pictured listening to Adolph Hitler's radio address today at the legation. He refused to com
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Add automatic river gauge. After dialing the Potomac River Gauge, A.L. King, U.S. Weather Bureau observer, waits for the first buzz, then sets his stop watch which continues until the buzz signal is again heard then he stops the watch. The time interval between the two signals is converted into the
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Add record depth reached by Navy divers. William Badders, Master Diver, U.S.N., who recently made a record dive of over 500 feet, is helped into his underwater suit just before taking an experimental dive in the tank at Washington Navy Yard, 8/9/38
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Add record depth reached by Navy divers. E.B. Crosby, Boatswain's Mate, 1st Class, U.S.N., rebreathing into a special apparatus which measures the amount of helium gas absorbed by body after a dive into the tank at Washington Navy Yard,. 8/9/38
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Add record depth reached by Navy divers. Lieut. A.R. Benhke, Medical Corps, U.S.N., uses the van slyke gas analysis apparatus in extracting gases from body fluids following the dives. Analysis of body fluid is made immediately after each diver comes from the water, 8/9/38
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Administration favorites. Washington, D.C., Jan. 22. Holding key posts in the Roosevelt Administration, Social Security Board member Mary Dewson (left) and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, are both favorites of the President, 1/22/38
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Adelaide Henry, Council for Eastern Air Lines, 3/9/38
1938-03-09
Administrator of N.Y. Milk Marketing Agreement. Washington, D.C., Aug. 29. Erske M. Harmon, recently appointed administrator of the New York Milk Marketing agreement, has assumed his new duties as the U.S. Department of Agriculture here, 8/29/38
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Admits Army finance office honored allegedly fraudulent CCC vouchers. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18. Major General Walter L. Reed, (left) Inspector General of the Army, today told Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the Senate Public Lands Committee, the Army Chief Finance Offi. honor allegedly fraudul
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Admits destroying records. Washington, D.C., March 10. Mayor Daniel J. Shields, of Johnstown, PA., today told the Senate Civil Liberties Committee he had destroyed the records concerning the payment of approximately 500 special officers sworn in during the "Little Steel" strike last summer. Asked wh
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Adrian Dornbush and chair, 4/13/38
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Admits secret contributions. Washington, D.C., March 30. Col. William Frew Long, manager of the Associated Industries of Cleveland, today told the Senate Civil Liberties Committee that many nationally prominent firms made secret contributions to the organization and were listed as numbers on the ass
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Adrian Dornbush and chair, 4/13/38. Housley, 1708 R, N.W., Edw. Hadley. Cedar Rapids Gazette
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Advisor to Chinese Finance Minister White House visitor. Washington, D.C., Oct. 13. K.P. Chen, left; entering the White House today with Sec. of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Chen, is heading a special Chinese Financial Mission, which is in this country seeking to widen its current silver agreement
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Advisory Council on social security issues. Washington, D.C., Oct. 21. Important changes in the Government's vast social security program received consideration today by two groups of officials and laymen. The advisory counsel, created at request of a Senate Committee, heard reports from experts who
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Affixing US Great Seal 1938
1938-01-08
Affixes U.S. seal to all state documents. Washington, D.C., Jan. 8. Mrs. Helen S. Bru, clerk in the State Department's Appointment Section, affixes the great seal of the United States to about 1200 documents per year. This is the only machine in the world which will place the seal of the United Sta
1938-01-08
Against all "isms" except Americanism. Washington, D.C., March 10. Urging passage of the National Youth Act before the Senate Education and Labor Subcommittee today, Rexford Holmes of the National Patriotic Council, declared he is against all "isms" except Americanism. He added he is backed in his s
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Agr. Cotton Growers Ass'n. Sen. Agr. Comm Council, 4/25/38
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Agr. Cotton Growers Council. Mr. Fuich, 4/25/38
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Agriculture finds new ways to keep flowers free from destructive insect pests. Beltsville, MD, Aug. 30. The bureau of Plant Quarantine and Entomology of the Dept. of Agriculture, has perfected treatments that keep tiny thrips from ruining Gladiola blooms, it worked them out by subjecting the bulbs t
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Agriculture Secretary. Washington, D.C., Sept. 22. A new and informal picture of Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, made in his office today, 9/22/38
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Agree. Washington, D.C., May 3. B.O. Heacock, (left) a director, and George H. Davis, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, today joined hands in defending the capitalistic system of free enterprise as contrasted with other systems employing so-called "planned economies," 5/3/38
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Aid to refugees planned at White House. Washington, D.C., April 13. Experts on the refugee problem shown leaving the White House today after conferring with President Roosevelt, the group met with the President to go over preliminaries to an international conference to help political refugees form G
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Aid to refugees mapped at White House. Washington, D.C., April 13. Henry Morgenthau, left; and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, shown leaving the White House after conferring with President Roosevelt on plans to assist political refugees from Germany and Austria to find new homes, 4/13/38
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Air conditioned hen house is latest. Washington, D.C., Aug. 9. Biddy increases the production of eggs in an air-conditioned hen house, U.S. Department of Agriculture experts have discovered after extensive experiments. The first temperature controlled maternity ward for hens has just been put into o
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Alabama delegation made for Democratic digest. Left to right: Sen. John Bankhead; Speaker Bankhead; Sen. Lister Hill
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Alabama delegation made for Democratic digest. Seated (l-r): Sen. John Bankhead; Speaker Bankhead; Sen. Lister Hill. Standing (l-r) Pete Jarman; Frank William Boykin; Henry Bascom Steagall; Joe Starnes; John J. Sparkman; Sam Hobbs; Luther Patrick.
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Albert Janssens, former Minister of Finance of Belgium
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Alarm system of the Treasury Dept., Secret Service, 10/38
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Alarm system of the Treasury Dept., Secret Service
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Alexander Kerensky (left) & Harold Brayman at Press Club
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Alexander Friedberg, radio operator. He puts the dispatcher on the air for calls and is responsible for keeping the equipment in order, 10/38
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Charges railroads with gambling on stock market. Washington, D.C., July 6. Alexander F. Whitney, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, leaving the White House today after a conference with the President. Whitney said that railroads could save 700,000,000 to 8,000,000,000 annually if they
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All set for construction. Washington, D.C., April 20. While Senator Robert F. Wagner, of New York, the father of modern housing legislation, looks on with pride, Nathan Straus, Chief of U.S. Housing Authority, puts the final OK on the President's approval of $36,657,000 in contracts for housing proj
1938-04-20
All over but November election. Washington, D.C., June 14. Forgetting Congressional worries and pointing for a victory in the November election, Senator Claude A. Pepper, Democrat of Florida, packs his belongings for a hasty departure to his home state as soon as Congress adjourns this week. He was
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Alvin Halpern, testifying before the House Un-American Committee
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Prof. Paul H. Douglas, right, of Univ. of Chicago, & Prof. Alvin W. Hansen of Harvard U. before Senate Unemployment & Relief Comm. Hearings
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