Vice President gets another gavel. Washington, D.C., March 25. Another gavel to add to this varied collection was presented to Vice President Garner today by Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Made of cedar from "Beauvoir, home of Jefferson Davis at Biloxi, Mississippi, the gavel is a present from
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"Vice President gets another gavel. Washington, D.C., March 25. Another gavel to add to this varied collection was presented to Vice President Garner today by Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi. Made of cedar from "Beauvoir, home of Jefferson Davis at Biloxi, Mississippi, the gavel is a present from" (1938). Harris & Ewing. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vice_President_gets_another_gavel._Washington,_D.C.,_March_25._Another_gavel_to_add_to_this_varied_collection_was_presented_to_Vice_President_Garner_today_by_Senator_Pat_Harrison_of_LCCN2016873286.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 299072.
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