Working on housing display. These representatives of the Manufacturers' Housing Display Council and the Treasury Department discuss methods of stimulating building to care for a shortage of houses indicated in a recent survey. From the left: Peter Grimm, assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury; Russell G. Creviston, chairman of the council, and Marshall Adams, Vice Chairman. Creviston is a Crane Co., official, and Adams is with American Radiator Co. Grimm is President of William A White & Sons of New York, who has been loaned to the Treasury Department, 103035
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A group of men standing around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
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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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