No midget lap-sitting for Speaker Bankhead. Washington, D.C., April 30. "Lap-sitting is out" Speaker Bankhead today as he greeted a troupe of circus midgets from his home state of Alabama at the Capitol. An enterprising photographer sought to repeat the J.P. Morgan act of a few years ago (?) the n
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- Date
- 1937
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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- 10,098 × 8,112 pixels
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"No midget lap-sitting for Speaker Bankhead. Washington, D.C., April 30. "Lap-sitting is out" Speaker Bankhead today as he greeted a troupe of circus midgets from his home state of Alabama at the Capitol. An enterprising photographer sought to repeat the J.P. Morgan act of a few years ago (?) the n" (1937). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:No_midget_lap-sitting_for_Speaker_Bankhead._Washington,_D.C.,_April_30._%22Lap-sitting_is_out%22_Speaker_Bankhead_today_as_he_greeted_a_troupe_of_circus_midgets_from_his_home_state_of_Alabama_LCCN2016877897.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 291371.
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