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More furs for the modern woman. Washington, D.C., Nov. 2. Dr. Thora M. Plitt, formerly with the Bureau of Standards and now with the Dept. of Agriculture starts research work at the Agriculture Dept. today, because current fashions are demanding more and more furs, despite a diminishing supply of wild life pelts. The fur industry is turning to fur bearing animals raised in captivity. Dr. Plitt, will investigate fur fiber structure and shape, pigment distribution, density, and relative distribution of underfur and guard hairs of such fur animals as silver foxes, minks, martens, and muskrats. She is shown with a sample giving it the once over, 11238
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A black and white photo of a woman holding a cat, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Temp. note: Batch five.
The Harris & Ewing, Inc. Collection of photographic negatives includes glass and film negatives taken by Harris & Ewing, Inc., which provide excellent coverage of Washington people, events, and architecture, during the period 1905-1945. Harris & Ewing, Inc., gave its collection of negatives to the Library in 1955. The Library retained about 50,000 news photographs and 20,000 studio portraits of notable people. Approximately 28,000 negatives have been processed and are available online. (About 42,000 negatives still need to be indexed.)
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district of columbia
washington dc
glass negatives
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harris and ewing
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furs
fur fiber structure
fur animals
fur industry
plitt
agriculture
ultra high resolution
high resolution
doctor physician
united states history
middle aged woman
library of congress
Date
01/01/1938
in collections
Location
district of columbia
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html