Harris & Ewing photos from the 1930s
6,354 photos, in date order; 3,661–3,720 on this page. The studio gave its photographs to the Library of Congress without copyright restrictions. About the collection
Wage -. Textile Board
1938
Gets lame duck appointment to senate. Washington, D.C., Nov. 28. Miss Gladys Pyle, elected to fill the unexpired term of Senator Herbert E. Hitchcock of South Dakota, arrived at the Capitol to assume her new duties today. A democrat, her term will run until the 76th Congress convenes on January 3
1938
Gets star of Brigadier General. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Col. Maxwell Murray, left, appointed commandant of the Washington Provisional Brigade with the rank of Brigadier General, receives the star of the rank from his predecessor, Brig. Gen. Dane T. Merrill. Gen. Merrill, Gen. Merrill has been tran
1938
Gibbs Lyons, Chief Nat'l Bank Examiner of 6th Federal Res. Dist.
1938
Giles E. Dawson 1938
1938-05-14
Giles E. Dawson 1938 cropped
1938
Gilbert H. and Sen. Gibbs McAdoo, Nat. Fed. of P.O. Clerks
1938
Glad it's over. Washington, D.C., June 16. Rep. John J. O'Connor of New York, Chairman of the powerful House Rules Committee, wipes his fevered brow as a hectic day was climaxed tonight when the 75th congress drew to a close at 9:09 P.M., 6/16/38
1938
Gives the Nazi salute. Washington, D.C., Nov. 22. German Ambassador Hans Dieckhoff gives the familiar Nazi salute as he arrives at the State Department today to pay a farewell call on Secretary of State Cordell Hull. He expects to sail for Germany from New York next Friday night on the Europa *Abstr
1938-11-22
Glass Magnate called to stand of monopoly investigation. Washington, D.C., Dec. 14. William E. Levis, President of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, largest glass producers in the country, today took the stand before Government Monopoly Investigators. It was revealed in his testimony that Hartford E
1938
Glenn W. Simpson, President Social Security Improvement League, Rochester, N.Y.
1938
GMC Head signs on the dotted line. Washington, D.C., Dec. 6. William S. Knudsen, President of the General Motors Corp., signs a subpoena before appearing before the Monopoly Committee. George C. Arvedson, Counsel for the Automobile Manufacturers Association, looks on
1938
Golf course grass now dyed green for nervous putters. Washington, D.C., Aug. 5. Nervous golfers who have complained that some insecticides used on greens turned the grass brown, thus creating a mental hazard which spoiled their game, have no excuse now. Experts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
1938
Golden Jubilee Year at Catholic University. Washington, D.C., Oct. 12. Catholic University of America, today began its Golden Jubilee-- celebrating fifty years of progress from a small college in rural Brookland, DC, in 1878. Among the noted visitors who attended were left to right; The Apostolic De
1938
GOODALL, DORIS. PORTRAIT
1938
Goodwin J. Oppegaurd; Deputy Comptroller of Currency
1938
Goodyear blimp at Wash. Air Post, 4/13/38
1938-04-13
GOP chairman opens national committee meeting. Washington, D.C., Nov. 29. A victory meeting might be called the one today of the Republican National Committee at the Carlton Hotel here. Chairman John Hamilton is pictured calling the members to order, after which, gains made in the last election were
1938
Gov. & Mrs. James Price of VA
1938
Gov. George Earle of Conn. and Senator Joseph Guffey
1938
Government experts discover "perpetual" electrical current. Washington, D.C., March 10. Dr. F.B. Silsbee (left) and Dr. F.G. Brickwedge, of the Bureau of Standards, have just concluded experiments which have proved that an electric current, cut off from its original source, will flow eternally round
1938
Government discovers method to preserve movie film indefinitely. Washington, D.C., July 8. People living in the year 2000 will be able to see and hear today's history in the making through experiments on preserving movie film now being conducted by the National Bureau of Standards. The experts at th
1938
Government discovers method to preseve film. Folding endurance test, The flexibility is measured in this folding endurance tester. A strip of film is folded back and forth under tension until it breaks, and the number of folds it withstands is counted. Three types of films have been studied, termed
1938
Government discovers method to preserve film. Scratch resistance, film, particulary the emulsion side, may become damaged through scratching. D. Levinsky of the Bureau is using an instrument which tests the resitance of a film by measuring the width of a scratch produced by a diamond point under a g
1938
Government "T" men try out their shooting irons. Washington, D.C., Aug. 2. Start of the third annual marksmanship match between officers in the various enforcement services of the Treasury Department, marksmanship training in the Treasury Department was inaugurated by Sec. Morgenthau in 1935 and the
1938-08-02
Government experts test power of gas to keep weeds out of golf greens. Washington, D.C., Aug. 4. Attention golfers!! Your putting is bound to improve and your cussing cut down if the tests now being conducted by grass experts of the Department of Agriculture on the use of tear gas to keep weeds out
1938
Government discovers method to preserve. (3) Test for fading. D. Levinsky of the Bureau of Standards is pictured exposing a developed film to light from a carbon arc to find whether the photographic image fades. The carbon-arc light simulates daylight closely and therefore is used for many mate
1938
Government discovers method to preserve film. (2) Expansion and contraction, like paper and other sheet materials made from cellulose, films expand as they take up moisture and contract as they lose it, and the extent of the change is different in the two directions of them. This may cause some dist
1938
Government scientist cools water to -6ʺ without freezing it. Washington, D.C., Aug. 9. The belief that water freezes at 32 degrees fahrenheit has been blasted by Dr. N. Ernest Dorsey, scientist of the National Bureau of Standards. Neither does all water freeze at the same temperature. These discover
1938
Governor - Elect of South Carolina. Washington, D.C., Nov. 12. Governor-Elect of South Carolina, Burnet R. Maybank, was a White House caller today, 11/12/38
1938
Governor-elect of Oklahoma. Washington, D.C., Nov. 18. A new photographic portrait of Leon C. Phillips, Governor-elect of Oklahoma
1938
Governor-elect of Maryland luncheon guest of President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29. Governor-elect Herbert O'Connor of Maryland, arriving at the White House where he was luncheon guest of the President today, 12/29/38
1938
Govt. Printing Office, B.E. Burr, Sup't of Press work. 30 years with Gov. Printing Office
1938
Herbert Enoch's before R.R. fact finding commission
1938
Harry N. Magill, Asst. House Enrolling Clerk
1938
Greater need for rural relief. Washington, D.C., Jan. 11. A bleak picture of rural districts accompanied by inadequacy of federal relief facilities was presented by Sec. of Agriculture Henry Wallace today before the Senate Unemployment Committee. Tying the rural economic conditions to those of indus
1938-01-11
Greetings. Washington, D.C., Nov. 11. National Commander of the American Legion Stephen Chadwick, exchanges greetings with Cuba's Dictator Col. Fulgencio Batista at Armistice Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery where the National paid homage to America's Unknown Soldier, 11/11/38
1938
Greyhound bus (1930s Supercoach) Front View
c. 1938
Group Health Association, 1328 Eye St., N.W.
1938
Group of 4 at R.R. hearing, 10/38
1938
Group of Legislators ask president for flood control dollars
1938-03-07
Group of speakers at "Cavalcade of Labor" Broadcast, 4/27/38
1938
Harry Hopkins shown as he arrived in Washington form Los Angeles. He will have charge of flood relief, 9/24/38
1938
Guarding American lives in China. Washington, D.C., Aug. 14. Col. Charles F.B. Price, in command of the marines on watch at the international settlement at Shanghai
1938-08-14
Guard at U.S. Chamber of Commerce
1938
Guiding Senate Lobby investigation. Washington, D.C., March 18. All eyes are now focused on the Senate Lobby Committee hearing as questioning of the country's leading lobbyists began today. Chairman Sherman Minton (left) is directing the investigation with Senator Lewis Schwellenback, Committee memb
1938
Gym in House Office building. Left to right: Pete Henderson, Trainer; Cong. James Mead, N.Y.; Cong. Elmer J. Ryan, Minn.; Cong. William F. Lambertson, Kan.
1938
Guy Thompson, Trustee of the Union Pacific Railroad, before the Securities & Exchange Commission, 3/18/38
1938
H.A. Bacus *Mr. Bacus of Cincinnati, is the national representative of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerk
1938
H. Brown, H.R. Talley, & Secy. Wallace, 10-38
1938
GWJ-Group of Legislators ask president for flood control dollars (cropped)
1938-03-07
S.E.C. investigates Whitney Co. collapse. Washington, D.C., April 12. H.G. Wellington, partner in the firm of Wellington and Co. told the SEC today that his firm made a unsecured loan on a thirty day note to Richard Whitney and Co. in Sept. 1933, and that the money was not paid for four years. Welli
1938-04-12
Hamilton Fish Armstrong 1938
1938-11-16
Hanes take oath as Assistant Secretary of Treasury. Washington, D.C., July 1. John W. Hanes, former New York broker and member of the S.E.C., pictured taking the oath of office today as Assistant Secretary of The Treasury from Frank Birgfeld, Chief Clerk of. Hanes will succeed Josephine Roche b
1938
Hanes gets commission as Undersecretary of Treasury. Washington, D.C., Oct. 31. Secretary of Treasury, Henry Morgenthau congratulates John W. Hanes after presenting him the commission as Undersecretary of Treasury. A former member of the S.E.C., Hanes succeeds Roswell Mgill in the Undersecretarial P
1938
Hams now aged in 6 to 10 weeks. College Park, Md. Oct. 27. No longer is it necessary to age ham a year or so to obtain that sharp, pungent, cheesy flavor in the lean meat, so characteristic of southern style ham. Speeding up nature, the Maryland Experiment Station, University of Maryland, in coopera
1938-10-07
Hams. Mr. Carroll then rubs the cured ham in a mixture of salt, brown sugar, and saltpeter before it is smoked
1938
Hams. Placing the ham in the incubator, Mr. Carroll sets the heat at the required temperature for the aging
1938-10-27
Hams. From time to time the hams are taken from the incubator by Mr. Carroll and weighed to checked the shrinkage caused during the aging process
1938-10-27
Harcourt Morgan David Lilienthal
1938-03-11