Harris & Ewing photos from the 1930s
6,354 photos, in date order; 5,701–5,760 on this page. The studio gave its photographs to the Library of Congress without copyright restrictions. About the collection
New informal photo. Washington, D.C., Nov. 29. Latest informal photo of Rep. Andrew J. May, Democrat, of Kentucky
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New Head of Farm Credit Administration. Washington, D.C., Dec. 21. President Roosevelt today appointed Dr. A.G. Black as Governor of the Farm Credit Administration to succeed F.F. Hill, resigned. Black, above, has been serving as Chief of the Department of Agriculture's Marketing and Regulatory Work
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New member of U.S. Civil Service Commission. Washington, D.C., July 10. A new informal picture of Arthur S. Flemming, recently appointed a member of the United States Civil Service Commission by President Roosevelt. Flemming, a republican, succeeds Samuel Ordway, Jr., resigned
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New Mexico Solon. Washington, D.C., July 25. A new informal picture of Rep. John J. Dempsey, congressman-at-large from New Mexico, 7/25/39
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New Mexico senator. Washington, D.C., July 26. A new informal picture of Senator Carl A. Hatch, Democrat of New Mexico, 7/26/39
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New machine to speed up statistics of census of 1940. Washington, D.C., Dec. 2. Back in 1870, it took 7 years to compile statistics from the facts taken by census takers, but in the next 10 years, Herman Hollerith invented a 'unit tabulator,' shown on left of photo being operated by Operator Ann Oli
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New member of House. Washington, D.C., Jan. 8. A new photograph of Rep. John Jennings, Republican of Tennessee who was sworn in today as a member of the House of Representatives
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New member of Civil Aeronautics Authority assumes post. Washington, D.C., May 6. Edward P. Warner, recently appointed a member of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, today took the oath of office and assumed the new post. He is pictured with Robert H. Hinckley, right, chairman of the authority. Warner
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New Republican Senator from Ohio. Washington, D.C., Jan. 6. A new informal photograph of Senator Robert A. Taft, Republican from Ohio. He is a son of the late Chief Justice William H. Taft, 1/6/39
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New photo of Senator Byrnes. Washington, D.C., Jan. 14. A new informal photograph of James F. Byrnes, Senator from South Carolina, 1/14/39
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New Ohio Senator speaks to press club. Washington, D.C., Jan. 19. Senator Robert A. Taft, Republican Senator from Ohio, today spoke off the record to the Luncheon meeting of the Washington Press Club. Senator Taft is one of the new faces on Capitol Hill, 1/19/39
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New process expected to revolutionize map making. Washington, D.C., March 21. A new machine just designed and perfected by John Braund, Cartographer for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, by which relief maps can be made showing all the details of topography in a form true to nature, is expected to
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New public works program will not interfere with private industry, Senate Committee told. Washington, D.C., July 13. The new Federal Works Administrator, John M. Carmody, today promised the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that the new $350,000,000 public works program would not interfere with
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New R.F.C. Chairman. Washington, D.C., July 17. A new informal picture of Emil Schram, who today succeeded Jesse Jones as Chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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New Senator from Wisconsin. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. The new United States Senator from Wisconsin, Alexander Wiley. He succeeds Senator F. Ryan Duffy, 1/3/39
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New S.E.C. Commissioner takes oath. Washington, D.C., May 18. Leon Henderson, whose nomination as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission was recently approved by the Senate, was sworn in and assumed the post today. Left to right: Commissioner Edward C. Eicher, Commissioner Jerome Frank
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New Spanish Charge D'Affaires guest of National Press Club in first public appearance. Washington, D.C., April 13
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New Spanish Charge D'Affaires guest of National Press Club in first public appearance. Washington, D.C., April 13 (cropped)
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New Supreme Court Nominee. Washington, D.C., March 20. William O. Douglas, at 40 youngest man ever to be appointed to the Supreme Court, was all smiles and perfectly relaxed as cameramen called on him following the announcement by president Roosevelt today. Lounging back with feet on desk this pictu
1939
New Spanish Charge D'Affaires guest of National Press Club in first public appearance. Washington, D.C., April 13. Juan Francisco Cardenas, recently appointed Charge D'Affaires of the Spanish Embassy under the Franco Regime, today made his first public appearance when he spoke to members of the Nati
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New Surgeon General. Washington, D.C., May 8. Col. James C. Magee attended the first official reception of the 10th International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy tonight. He was appointed by President Roosevelt to replace Major General Charles R. Reynolds as Surgeon General of the United
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New WPA Administrator appears before House Appropriations Committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 6. Col. F.C. Harrington, new WPA Administrator, was the first witness today as the House appropriations Committee opened hearings on President Roosevelt's request for $875,000,000 to keep about 3,000,000 unem
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New U.S. Navy Surgeon General. Washington, D.C., Jan. 26. A new picture of Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, Personal Physician to President Roosevelt who was recently appointed Surgeon General of the U.S. Navy. In addition to his new duties, Dr. McIntire continues to act as personal physician to the p
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New York Congressman. Washington, D.C., Jan. 9. A new informal picture of Rep. James W. Wadsworth, Republican of New York, 1/9/39
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New York Representative. Washington, D.C., April 12. Rep. James W. Wadsworth, republican of New York, from a new informal picture made a few days ago. 4-12-39
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New York Governor and Attorney General meet at parole conference. Washington, D.C., April 17. Governor Herbert Lehman, of New York, and U.S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, met this morning at the National Parole Conference here. Gov. Lehman is one of five governors who attended the conference
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New York Solon. Washington, D.C., May 12. Rep. Hamilton Fish, republican of New York, today urged Senate approval of his proposal to conduct a referendum on the question of draft of man power in the event of war. Fish said he believed such a referendum could be conducted without a constitutional ame
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New York Board of Trade says 'nonsense' to charges on capital strike. Washington, D.C., June 3. M.L. Seidman, Chairman of the New York Board of Trade Tax Committee suggested a 10 point tax program to the House Ways and Means Committee. He brought out that business would lose its fear of striking out
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New York Senator. Washington, D.C., June 21. A new informal photograph of Senator James. Mead, democrat of New York. The picture was made in his office
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New York Mayor attends National Aviation Forum. Washington, D.C., Feb. 21. New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in a speech today before the National Aviation Forum cautioned against 'log rolling'. congressional consideration of national defense ? bases included in the federal airport program. L
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Newest Supreme Court appointee and family. Washington, D.C., March 20. Mrs. William Douglas, William, Jr., William Sr., and daughter Mildred Riddle at home tonight as they posed for photographs, following a day of excitement at the SEC when the President announced Mr. Douglas as his newest appointee
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Newspaper Executive. Washington, D.C., March 28. A new informal photograph of Mark Ethridge, Vice President and General Manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times. 3-28-39
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Newly nominated treasury general counsel. Washington, D.C., May 8. A new informal photograph of Edward H. Foley, Jr., of New York, was nominated by the president for the position of General Counsel for the Treasury Department. He will be 34 this month
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Nicoleii Machado, son of the Major and Madame Jose Bina Machado, of the Brazilian Embassy, who will take part in the International Children's Christmas Broadcast which will go over the air from the Shoreham Hotel on December 20. This function is one of the feature broadcasts of the year that comes o
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NLRB chairman tells House Committee that House charges by members are 'half truths.' Washington, D.C., May 23. J. Warren Madden, Chairman of the NLRB told the House Labor Committee that charges against the NLRB by three House critics were based on 'half truths, misinformation, or deliberate misrepre
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NLRB Chairman tells Senate that restrictions on Wagner Act will deprive labor of liberties. Washington, D.C., April 18. NLRB Chairman J. Warren Madden, declared today before the Senate Labor Committee that restrictive amendments to the Wagner Act would deprive labor of formerly enjoyed liberties. He
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NLRB counsel testifies before Senate Committee on Labor. Washington, D.C., April 25. General Counsel Charles Fahy told the Senate Education and Labor Committee today that changes in the Labor Relations Act would ultimately frustrate the purpose of the law
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NLRB general counsel defends board before House Labor Committee. Washington, D.C., May 31. Charles Fahy, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, told a House Committee on labor today that the Wagner Act procedure in labor trouble is 'fair, full, and sound.' He said, 'It is so tempera
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NLRB member and Chairman of House NLRB Investigating Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 11. Before taking the stand as the first witness before the House NLRB Investigating Committee today, William M. Leiserson, right, member of the National Labor Relations Board, talked 'off-the-record with Rep. How
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NLRB Investigating Committee quizzes Edwin S. Smith, Board member. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. While testifying before the House Committee Investigating the National Labor Relations Board today, Edwin S. Smith, NLRB member, was questioned about a letter he wrote to an official of Filene's Department
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NLRB Invesitgating Committee quizzes Edwin Smith?, NLRB Board member. Washington, D.C., Dec. 15. Edwin S. Smith, member of the National Labor Relations Board photographed as he testified before the Smith Committee investigating the NLRB
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NLRB Regional Director at Cincinnati questioned by House Committee. Washington, D.C., Dec. 18. Philip G. Phillips, Regional Director of the National Labor Relations Board at Cincinnati, was questioned by the House Committee investigating the NLRB regarding a report he made last January to Nathan Wit
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NLRB Investigating Committee looks into American Radiator case decision by Board. Washington, D.C., Jan. 8. Miss Anne Freeling, NLRB review attorney, who drafted the Board's final decision in the American Radiator case, was questioned today by the Smith Committee Investigating the NLRB as to reasons
1939
SENATE CONSIDERS NEW NOMINEE FOR ICC. A Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee which recently considered the qualifications of Thomas Amlie for membership in the ICC today took up questioning of J. Haden Alldredge, Alabama attorney, regarding his qualifications for membership in that body. He exper
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CALIFORNIA REPRESENTATIVE ARGUES FOR CANAL ACROSS NICARAGUA. Rep. Ed. V. Izac, sponsor of a $500,000,000 Nicaraguan Canal Bill, argued before the House Merchant Marine committee today that such a canal was needed to supplement the Panama Canal in times of war. The committee challenged his statements
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CHAIRMAN OF COMMUNIST PARTY QUESTIONED BY DIES COMMITTEE. William Zebulon Foster, chairman of the Communist Party of the United States, told the Dies committee today that Soviet Russia was justified "100 per cent" in occupying Poland because "it means establishment of a free government." He denied t
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QUESTIONED BY DIES COMMITTEE. William Zebulon Foster, chairman of the Communist Party in the United States, who was questioned today by the Dies committee. Among other things he told the committee that Soviet Russia was justified "100 percent" in occupying Poland because "it means establishment of a
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FORMER SOVIET ADIE GIVES DIES COMMITTEE INSIGHT OF COMMUNIST IN RUSSIA. Walter G. Krivitsky, left, who said he formerly headed the Soviet Union's Central European Military Intelligence Service, told the Dies committee today that Josef Stalin "destroyed" 35,000 red army offices in 1937 and sent milli
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DENIES THAT ORDER HE HEADS IS COMMUNIST CONTROLLED BUT ADMITS HE IS RED. Max Bedacht told the Dies committee that the international workers order of which he is general secretary is not Communist controlled, even though he himself is a member of the Communist Party. He said that the group is a "frat
1939-10-16
TESTIMONY OF REP. MARCANTONIO DISPUTED BY FORMER OFFICIAL OF COMMUNIST PARTY. Following Rep. Vito Marcantonio to the stand before the Dies committee today was Benjamin Gitlow, former executive secretary of the Communist Party who flatly stated that the ILD was established as a Communist front organi
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DIES COMMITTEE HAS SESSION WITH LADY WHO "WOULDN'T TALK." Miss Anna Damon, Secretary of the International Labor Defense and a charter member of the Communist Party, when asked by the committee this afternoon if she was married, replied, "I don't see what that has to do with this investigation." She
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DIES COMMITTEE HEARS FRED BEAL. The Dies committee today called a one-time Communist Party organizer, Fred Beal, from the North Carolina State Penitentiary to tell of his part in the 1929 Gastonia, N.C. strike. The back-ground for Beal's appearance before the committee was laid yesterday, when Ben G
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CALIFORNIA CONGRESSMAN. A new informal photograph of Rep. Jerry Voorhis, Dem., of California.
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DIES WITNESS. The latest witness to be heard before the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities was Dr. Harry F. Ward, National Chairman of the American League for Peace and Democracy. He told the committee that its chief investigator knows more about the League's inception than he does because the
1939-10-23
No rail troubles here. Washington, D.C., Feb. 10. Apparently no rail troubles in the Senate subway indicates Senator Burton K. Wheeler as he rides the tram car between the Senate office building and the Capitol. Senator Wheeler is Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee which is now stu
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No partisanship here. Washington, D.C., March 16. Partisan politics were forgotten today when Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace appeared before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee. Wallace, who told the Committee that the U.S. must be prepared for an 'armed conflict between the currenc
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No legislation will keep us out of war Rep. Fish tells House committee. Washington, D.C., April 11. The senior republican member of the House Foreign affairs Committee, Rep. J. Hamilton Fish, appearing at the hearing on neutrality legislation today declared "No legislation will keep us out of war, b
1939
No possibility of monopoly in milk distribution, witness tells Monopoly Investigating Committee. Washington, D.C., May 3. 'There is not and cannot be a monopoly in milk distribution,' Thomas H. McInnerney, President of the National Products Corporation, today told the National Monopoly Investigating
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No rift here. Washington, D.C., July 6. It was Jack and Kim today as Vice President Garner and PMG James A. Farley, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, got together at the Capitol. The pair were as chummy as turtle doves despite the fact that the V.P. is said to be on the outside as far a
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