Speaker William Bankhead and gavel; and two unidentified
4 x 5 in. or smaller
- Date
- 1939
- Collection
- Harris & Ewing
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 10,131 × 8,078 pixels
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