Newsreel cameraman describes sinking of Panay to Assistant Navy head. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31. Norman Alley, intrepid newsreel cameraman who was aboard the U.S.S. Panay shooting pictures while the gunboat was being bombed by the Japanese in the Yangtze River, December 12, describing his experiences today to Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, (left) Alley was questioned by high Navy Officials following the screening of the pictures at the Navy Department, 123137

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.)