Speaker prepares for homeward journey. Washington D.C. Aug 21. Content with a job well done, Speaker of the House Bankhead clears his desk preparatory to taking a train to his Alabama home as the 75th Congress adjourned today, 8/21/37
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- 1937
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- Harris & Ewing
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- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
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"Speaker prepares for homeward journey. Washington D.C. Aug 21. Content with a job well done, Speaker of the House Bankhead clears his desk preparatory to taking a train to his Alabama home as the 75th Congress adjourned today, 8/21/37" (1937). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Speaker_prepares_for_homeward_journey._Washington_D.C._Aug_21._Content_with_a_job_well_done,_Speaker_of_the_House_Bankhead_clears_his_desk_preparatory_to_taking_a_train_to_his_Alabama_home_LCCN2016872209.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 296710.
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