Harris & Ewing photos from the 1930s
6,354 photos, in date order; 4,381–4,440 on this page. The studio gave its photographs to the Library of Congress without copyright restrictions. About the collection
Robert J. Bulkley 1938 with US Map
1938-02-14 · map
Robert L. Ramsay of WVA
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Robert Jackson before Senate committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 15. Robert H. Jackson, nominated as Solicitor General, told a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee today that both he and Sec. of the Interior Harold Ickes, 'stole' portions of their recent speeches attacking monopoly in big business. Jackson s
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Robert P. Hastey of Chicago, ILL. Pres. of Sternberg Saleak Service, Chair. of Installment Selling. Wallace Kimball of Long Island City, N.Y. Machinery Manufacturer, Chair of Unemployment. Bernanar McLain of Dallas Texas Furniture Dealer, Chair. Researc
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Robinson portrait unveiled. Washington, D.C., April 20. A portrait of the late Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Majority Leader of the Senate, was unveiled at the Capitol today by Vice President Garner. The painting will be hung on the Senate side of the Capitol. In the photograph, left to right: Vice Pr
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Roosevelt grabs a quick lunch. Washington, D.C., Feb. 15. While attending the National Association of Broadcasters today at the Willard Hotel in Washington, Ellicott Roosevelt, son of the President, was photographed taking a quick lunch, Roosevelt. Manager for Hearst Radio Interests in Texas, 2/
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Roosevelt calls cabinet meeting. Washington, D.C., Sept. 16. Apparently not perturbed by President's Roosevelt's special cabinet meeting, were these four members of the cabinet who attended the meeting, left to right, Daniel Roper, Sec. of Commerce; Henry Wallace, Sec. of Agriculture; Charles Edison
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Rookie Senators engage in first 'Bull' session with Vice President Garner. Washington, D.C., Dec. 19. This session's crop of rookie Senators were initiated today at an impromptu conference with Vice President John N. Garner. Naturally they were regaled by the wily Texas Legislator with some of his f
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Royal Swedish feminist lays wreath at Capitol. Washington, D.C., Nov. 26, 1938. Baroness Ebba Nordenfelt, left, member of the recently organized World Women's Party, laying wreath before the Statue of the Equal Rights Pioneers located in the Capitol. The Baroness is here to make plans for Sweden's p
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Running for Governor of Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C., March 23. Lt. Gov. Thomas Kennedy of Pa. who is running for Governor on the Democratic ticket, photographed at his desk today in the United Mine Workers offices, Kennedy is Secretary and Treasurer of the United States Mine Workers Union, 3/23/3
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Running for Governor of Pennsylvania. Washington, D.C., March 23. Lt. Gov. Thomas Kennedy of Pa. stopped of in Washington today to transact business of the United Mine Workers of which he is Sec. and Treas. Kennedy is running for Governor of his state on the Democratic ticket, 3/23/38
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Rumored peace conference of Pennsylvania democratic factions fails to materialize. Washington, D.C., May 24. The reported peace conference between Pennsylvania's warring democratic factions scheduled for today turned out to be a meeting of John L. Lewis and CIO leaders with their defeated candidate
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S.E.C. Chairman. Washington, D.C., Nov. 18. A new snap of William O. Douglas, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission
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Sage advice. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Senator Key Pittman, Veteran from Nevada and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, discusses with the youthful Republican Senator Henry Cabor Lodge, of Massachusetts, the amendment he (lodge) has proposed to the Neutrality Act which would make the
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S.R.O. sign out as Monopoly Committee opens hearings. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Standing room only was the order today as the Temporary Economic Committee, Joint Legislative-Executive Body Created to Study Economic Ills and Recommend Legislation, opened public hearings at the Capitol today. Isador L
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Sammy Baugh & Douglas Corrigan
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Sam Rice, former Washington ball player on his farm
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Says TVA inadequate for power needs in Tennessee Valley. Washington, D.C., Dec. 7. J.A. Krug, Chief Power Planning Engineer of the TVA, testifying before the Committee Investigating TVA, asserted that within eight y ears, either TVA or private utilities will have to expand power facilities in order
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Say farewell to President. Washington, D.C., Dec. 29. Most Rev. James H. Ryan, Bishop of Omaha, Nebraska and formerly Rector of Catholic University, and Rev. Maurice Sheehy, head of the Department of Religious Education at Catholic University, paid their respects to President Roosevelt yesterday bef
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Says profits should be distributed in pay envelopes. Washington, D.C., Dec. 7. H.J. Tily, president of the Strawbridge and Clothier Co., of Philadelphia, who told the Senate Committee Investigating Profit Sharing that the only practical system of profit sharing lay in 'a fat pay envelope.' He attack
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Scene at "Cavalcade of Labor" Broadcast, 4/27/38
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Scene at new headquaters of National Bituminous Coal Commission. Washington, D.C., July. The National Bituminous Coal Commission is now housed in the palatial Mrs. Edward B. McLean mansion in downtown Washington where many national and international figures have been royally entertained in years gon
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Schwartz family at Wyoming Day celebration. L.R. Betty Jane, Mrs. Schwartz, Tom, Sen. H.H. Schwartz of Wyoming, 4/4/38
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Screen and stage star entertains crowd at president's birthday ball. Washington, D.C., Jan. 29. Ray Bolger, rubber-legged dancing start of screen and stage, entertains the huge crowd attending the President's Birthday Ball at the Mayflower Hotel, 1/29/38
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Screen starlet assists D.C. Postmaster in planting memorial tree to airmail pilots. Washington, D.C., May 16. Within the shadow of the U.S. Capitol, Miss Marion Weldon, Paramount starlet, with the assistance of D.C., Postmaster Vincent Burke, plants a Deodor Tree on the city postoffice grpunds as a
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Sears-Roebuck head testifies. Washington, D.C., Jan. 7. Appearing before the Special Senate Committee investigating unemployment today, Robert E. Wood, President of Sears-Roebuck Co., declared that business "lacked confidence and was scared" in response to questions by the committee, Wood, said howe
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Sec. Henry Morgenthau, Treas.; Sec. Henry Wallace, Agri.; Mrs. Henry Wallace
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SEC Ickes and bride return home. Olney, Md., June 22. Like a line from the song 'Knee Deep in Daisies and Head Over Heels in Love,' Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes and his bride of a few weeks pictured in the garden of the Ickes country home 'Headwaters' following their return from honeymoon in E
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Sec. of Labor before senate committee. Washington, D.C., Feb. 4. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins greets Senator Royal S. Copeland, D. of New York, Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, where in a statement to the committee she opposed the labor provisions of the pending Maritime Bill, the bi
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Sec. member. Washington, D.C., March 31. Jerome Frank, new member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, pictured at his desk today, 3/31/38
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Sec. of Commerce Daniel Roper, with movie strip of the San Francisco Exposition
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Sec. Ickes shows bride new home. Olney, MD. June 22. Immediately after arriving at his country home "Headwaters" here with his bride of a few weeks, Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes shed his coat and took the hew Mrs. Ickes for a tour of the estate, 6/22/38
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Sec. Ickes and bride return from honeymoon. Washington, D.C., June 22. Returning from their European honeymoon to the Ickes country estate home near here today, Secretary on Interior Harold Ickes and his bride of a few weeks were greeted by "Sooner," great dane pet of the Secretary, 6/22/38
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Sec. Ickes press conf.
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Sec. of Commerce, Daniel Roper
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Sec. Wallace of Agric.
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Sec. of State Cordell Hull & Sen. Alben Barkley of KY
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Sec. of the Interior Harold Ickes, Chief of Publicity, Michael Straus
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Second lady expert at making Red Cross bandages. Washington, D.C., May 7. Mrs. John N. Garner, (left) wife of the Vice President, teaches the art of preparing Red Cross bandages to Mrs. James F. Byrnes, wife of the Senator from South Carolina, at a meeting of the Senate Ladies club at the Capitol. E
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Sec. of State greets Howard Hughes. Washington, D.C., July 21. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, congratulates Howard Hughes on his round the world flight, photographed at the State Dept. today, 7/21/38
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Sec. of State greets Hughes on his arrival in Washington. Washington, D.C., July 21. Sec. of State Cordell Hull, ranking cabinet member in the Capitol, officially greeted Howard Hughes and his crew upon their arrival in the Capitol, they are shown in the office of the Secretary of State, left to rig
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Secretary of Agriculture. Washington, D.C., May 19. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, from a new informal picture made during a recent broadcast, 5/19/38
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Secretary of Civil Aeronautics Authority. Washington, D.C., Aug. 22. Paul Frizzell, recently named Secretary of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, photographed at his desk today, 8/22/38
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Secret Service, 10-20-38
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Secret Service, 10-38. Confiscated currency awaiting disposition, court trials, etc.
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Secret Service, 10/38
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Secretary of State presides at Davis Cup drawing. Washington, D.C., Feb. 3. Presiding at the Davis Cup drawing at the Pan American Union today, Secretary of State Cordell Hull pulls Japan's pairing out of historic bowl first and hands it over to Yakichiro Suma, Counselor of the Japanese Embassy. In
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Secretary of State. Washington, D.C., March 1. A new informal picture of Secretary of State Cordell Hull, 3/1/38
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Secretary of State attends cabinet meeting. Washington, D.C., Sept. 16. Sec. of State Hull, after a conference last night with the President, confers at the White House again today with the entire cabinet upon the European situation, 9/16/38
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Secretary of Labor. Washington, D.C., Nov. 23. A new and unpublished snap of the Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
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Secretary of War attends emergency cabinet meeting. Washington, D.C., Sept. 16. The unusual happened in Washington today, when Sec. of War Harry Woodring, dashed past a movie photographer, to attend the hurriedly called cabinet meeting due to the unsettled condition of Europe, the Secretary of War s
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Secretary to Elmer Andrews, Miss Pope
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Secretary of Treasury welcomes new Comptroller of the currency. Washington, D.C., Oct. 24. Preston Delano, right, recently named Comptroller of the Currency to succeed J.F.T. O'Connor, is welcomed by Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau as he assumed his new post today. A native of Phoenix, Mi
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Secretary of War. Washington, D.C., Nov. 23. A new informal and unpublished picture of Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring
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Securities and Exchange Commission. Washington, D.C., March 31. The first picture to be made of the Securities and Exchange Commission since the appointment of its newest members, Jerome Frank and John W. Hanes. In the photograph, left to right: Jerome Frank, Robert E. Healy, William O. Douglas, Cha
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Section 51 of U.S. Criminal Code at Justice Dept. St. Louis Post Dispatch
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See season's opener. Washington, D.C., April 18. Precedence and politics were off their mind today as the nation's lawmakers, government officials, and diplomats attended today's opening game of the 1938 baseball season between the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics. Here we see, lef
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Seeks reinstatement to Naval Academy. Washington, D.C., May 17. Fredrick Krupp, of Boston, Mass. who after serving 3 years and 7 months in the Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD, was, he contended, forced to resign because of a "thoughtless statement". Appeared before the Senate Naval Affairs Committee
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Seeks method to prevent defrauding of public by so-called commodity counselors. Washington, D.C., Aug. 1. Presiding at a meeting of representatives of six major commodity exchanges with Department of Agriculture officials today, Assistant Secretary Harry L. Brown laid before the group recommendation
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Select Star American Farmer. Washington, D.C., Oct. 7. A committee met in the Office of Education, Department Interior today to select the Star American Farmer of this year. Contestants for the honor are students of vocational agriculture in highschools throughout the United States. They are judged
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