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Wife of Agriculture secretary opens mum show. Washington, D.C., Nov. 4. The Annual Mum Show of the Department of Agriculture was officially opened today by Mrs. Henry A. Wallace, wife of the Secretary, who was hostess to the cabinet wives and other members of Capital society. In this photograph, Mrs. Wallace (left) is displaying the beautiful blooms to Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, (right) widow of the War President, and Mrs. Edwin T. Meredith, widow of the Secretary of Agriculture during the Wilson Administration. 11437
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A group of women standing next to each other in a greenhouse, 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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