Harris & Ewing photos from the 1930s
6,354 photos, in date order; 4,441–4,500 on this page. The studio gave its photographs to the Library of Congress without copyright restrictions. About the collection
Sen. Allen Ellender, agr. cotton grower
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Sen. Carl Hatch, Mrs. Sherwood Jones, Soterios Nicholson
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Sen. David Walsh greeting Jean Angelo, spelling bee contestant. Council for Wooster Selegman, 6/1/38
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Sen. Edw. Burke receiving degree at Amer. Univ., June 1938
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Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D. of Mont.
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Sen. Gerald P. Nye, North Dakota
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Sen. F. Ryan Duffy (with cheese) and George L. Mooney, Secty, Nat'l Cheese Inst., Plymouth, Wisc., present cheese to Roosevelt, 3/5/38
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Sen. James Davis, Sen. Hugo Black, Sen. Schwellenbach, Sen. Sherman Minton
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Sen. Harry Truman and Garner
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Sen. Hattie Carraway
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Sen. John Bankhead, agr. cotton grower
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Sen. John Bankhead, agr. cotton grower, 6/13/38
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Sen. Key Pittman, Nevada
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Sen. Johnson & Sen. McNary
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Sen. M.E. Tydings of Maryland, 8/17/38
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Sen. McAdoo with movie cameras at Capitol, 4/13/38. Golden State
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Sen. McAdoo at Capitol
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Sen. Robert Taft, John Hamilton, Mrs. Robert Taft
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Sen. Smith, Creekmore, Elleander & Sen. Poke
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Sen. Sheppard of Texas with post card made from Houston Chron.
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Sen. Theo Green, D. of Rhode Island, being assisted from his autogiro by John Miller
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Sen. Walter George of Ga.
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Sen. Wm. E. Borah of Idaho
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Sen. Walter George, 6/9/38
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Senate Committee questions Inspector General of Army. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18. Maj. Gen. Walter Reed, Inspector General of the Army, takes the oath before testifying before the Senate Public Lands Committee. Questioned by the committee on the alleged defalcations totaling $87,000 of reno. Stit
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Senate Commerce Committee Chairman studies testimony of NLRB aide. Washington, D.C., Feb. 2. Senator Royal Copeland studies further the testimony of Mrs. Elinore M. Herrick, New York Regional Director for the National Labor Relations Board, who told the committee today that threats against her life
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Senate committee hears British expert. Washington, D.C., April 6. Appearing before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee this morning, Dr. Harold J. Laskil noted British political scientist, told how King George V of England threatened to "pack" The House of Lords on 1911 to permit extension of the powe
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Senate Committee questions DuPont. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Lammont DuPont, President of the E.I. DuPont De Nemours Co. Interests, as he was questioned today by members of the Senate Finance Subcommittee investigating profit sharing systems. He told the Committee he was opposed to incentive taxatio
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Senate Committee approves SEC head's proposal. Washington, D.C., March 30. A proposal by William O. Douglas, right, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to exempt transfers of securities and properties by holding companies liquidating under the 'death sentence' clause of the Public Ut
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Senate committee studying unemployment. Washington, D.C., Jan. 4. Headed by Senator James F. Byrnes, of South Carolina, members of the special committee studying unemployment listen to Isador Lubin, Chief of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, describe a drop of 1,500,000 in employment from October to D
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Senate Judiciary Committee ok's Reed. Washington, D.C., Jan. 20. After hearing Attorney General Homer S. Cummings today, the Senate Judiciary Committee went into executive session for two minutes during which they voted unanimously to report favorably the nomination of Solicitor General Stanley Reed
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Senate Committee told communists filtering into American Merchant Marine. Washington, D.C., Feb. 9. Joseph P. Ryan, President of the International Longshoreman's Association, an A.F. of L. affiliate, today charged before the Senate Commerce Committee that there is an infiltration of Communists into
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Senate Committee questions Undersecretary of Agriculture. Washington, D.C., March 10. Sen. James F. Byrnes (left), Chairman, and Senator Lynn J. Frazier, member of the Senate Unemployment and relief Committee, questioning M.L. Wilson, Undersecretary of Agriculture, at the Capitol today. Wilson told
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Senate Finance Chairman and Treasury expert go into last minute huddle. Washington, D.C., March 17. Senate Finance Committee. Pat Harrison, (left) went into a last- minute conference with Lovell H. Parker, Treasury., just before the Committee held its first. hearing today. Parker wa
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Senate investigates the cotton industry. Washington, D.C., April 25. Senator Ellison D. "Cotton Ed" Smith, of S.C. and Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee threatens to adjourn cotton investigation hearings, unless witnesses keep personalities out of hearings, 4/25/38
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Senate Committee told railroads should spend 3 billion in the next five years for habilitation. Washington, D.C., Dec. 12. Appearing before the Senate Finance Subcommittee today, R.V. Fletcher, General Counsel for the Association of American Railroads, asserted that railroads should spend approximat
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Senate Naval Affairs Committee hears Chief of Naval Aeronautics in secret session. Washington, D.C., April 7. Rear Admiral Arthur D. Cook, Chief Naval Aeronautics, pictured with Senator David I. Walsh, (left) Chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, before whom A.D. Cook appeared today in sec
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Senate lobby committee again refuffed. Washington, D.C., April 20. Efforts of the Senate Lobby Committee to obtain records of the National Committee to uphold Constitutional Government hit another snag today when Sumner Gerard, Treasurer of the Organization, testified he did not have in his "control
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Senate Majority Leader and men who helped elect him. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31. Senator Alben Barkley, new Majority Leader of the Senate, snapped with Carter Glass and Key Pittman. It was Pittman who nominated him and after Pat Harrison had declined to be considered, the caucus members unanimously m
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Senate's champion filibuster. Washington, D.C., Jan. 26. Leader of the Senate's bloc of Southern senators' filibuster against the anti- lynching bill, Senator Allen J. Ellender, of Louisiana, rests and studies up on Senate procedure while his colleagues continue the Filibuster against the measure. I
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Senator Carter Glass reaches 80th birthday. Washington, D.C., Jan. 4. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia, today celebrated his 80th birthday and thereby attained the goal he set for himself on his last anniversary. At that time the veteran Senator told friends his only wish was to reach 80 which would
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Senator from Colorado. Washington, D.C., Jan. 10. Democratic Senator Alva B. Adams, of Colorado; snapped at the Jackson Day dinner Saturday night, 1/10/38
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Senator from New Hampshire. Washington, D.C., Feb. 18. United States Senator Prentiss, of New Hampshire, pictured at a recent senate hearing, 2/18/38
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Senator from Wyoming. Washington, D.C., March 18. Senator H.H. Schwartz of Wyoming, pictured as he attended the hearing of the Senate Lobby Committee today, 3/18/38
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Senator testifies before Senate Committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 27. Senator Edward R. Burke, of Neb. appearing before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee which opened hearings on his resolution to authorize an inquiry of the NLRB, Sen. Burke, declared that the Federal Agency has created "widespread di
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Senator Robert J. Bulkle, of Ohio, with Build America group at White House, 3/8/38
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Senator McAdoo asks pardon for Townsend. Washington, D.C., April 15. Senator William McAdoo, D. Calif, went to the White House today to renew his appeal for a presidential pardon for Dr. Frances E. Townsend. McAdoo based his claim for clemency on the grounds that Townsend was too old to undergo the
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Senatorial huddle. Washington, D.C., Feb. 24. Like Moslems in prayer these two Senators, Robert J. Bulkley of Ohio, and John H. Bankhead, of Alabama, huddled during a lull at Senate Banking and Currency Subcommittee on the Bulkley Bill providing for $6,000,000,000 system of superhighways in the U.S.
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Senatorial twins. Washington, D.C., March 9. Senators Carl A. Hatch of New Mexico, and James F. Byrnes, (right) of South Carolina, both democrats, bear a striking resemblance to each other, as this profile picture indicates. They are often taken for twins by visitors to the Capitol, 3/9/38
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Senator Wheeler discusses rail road legislation with rail leaders. Washington, D.C., April 21. At a special meeting at the Capitol today, Senator Wheeler, Democrat of Montana, Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, discussed with representatives of Railroad Labor and Management the po
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Senatorial Aid. Washington, D.C., May 15. Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, of California, comes to the aid of Miss Marion Weldon, Paramount starlet, as she searches for her beauty aids before greeting the throng on her arrival at Washington Airport today. Miss Jean O'Connell, daughter of Ambrose O'Conn
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Senator-elect from California. Washington, D.C., Dec. 13. In deep study appears Senator-Elect Sheridan Downey, of California, as he surveys the Senate chamber where he will sit on January 3, 12/13/38
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Senatorial stickup. Washington, D.C., Feb. 17. After inspecting a couple of 45-caliber pistols formerly owned by Jesse James, famed bandit of another generation, Vice President Garner playfully tries his "stickup" technique on Senator Harry Truman of Missouri, present owner of the guns. Senator Trum
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Senators see damage done by soil erosion. Washington, D.C., March 9. H.H. Bennett, Chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, is shown describing to members of the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee the great amount of damage done throughout the country by soil erosion. Bennett said that soi
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Sentenced tax commissioner to make personal appeal to President Roosevelt. Washington, D.C., May 10. Speaker William B. Bankhead was the principal speaker at the convention banquet of the B'nai B'rith last night at the Willard Hotel. He is pictured with james Roosevelt and Alfred M. Cohen, President
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Senators in playful mood. Washington, D.C., June 15. It wasn't all work and no play for all of the Senators today as the Senate pushed through last minute bills to speed adjournment. Senator F. Ryan Duffy, (left) Wisconsin, engages in a sparring match with Senator Allen Ellender, Louisiana, as their
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Senators hear women's protest on Roosevelt pump-priming program. Washington, D.C., May 13. Fifty women headed by Mrs. Hamilton Wright of New York today invaded the Senate Office Building to protest to members of the Senate Appropriations Committee against President Roosevelt's five billion dollar pu
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Service chiefs review army day parade. Washington, D.C., April 6. Maj. Gen. Malin Craig, U.S. Chief of Staff, greets Rear Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Naval Operations, just before both reviewed with President Roosevelt today's Army Day Parade in the Capitol, 4/6/38
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Sergeant Frank M. Beall, in charge of the station, seated in the experimental 2-way communication car. He is removing the telephone transmitter to make a call, 10/38
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Seven million unemployed due to influx of new workers, senate committee told. Washington, D.C., Jan. 5. By means of a chart Virgil Jordan, President of the National Industrial Conference, tells the Special Senate Committee on unemployment that an influx of new workers and a "normal labor reserve" wo
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