Unofficial "Mayor" of D.C. breaks leg. Sen. William King, D., of Utah, and chairman of the Senate District of Columbia committee, transacts business from his bed where he is confined as a result of a broken leg, fractured in a fall in his home. Sen. King, as chairman of the Senate Committee, is considered the unofficial "Mayor" of voteless District of Columbia. He now is striving to get a PWA loan for a new court house, 82935
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A man laying in bed reading a book, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
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Harris & Ewing photos.
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 eight.
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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