Harris & Ewing photo studio
Harris & Ewing Inc. was a photographic studio in Washington, D.C., owned and run by George W. Harris and Martha Ewing.
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Harris worked for the Hearst News Service in San Francisco from 1900 to 1903. As a rookie news photographer, Harris covered the Johnstown, Pa., flood of 1889. He worked at Hearst News Service in San Francisco from 1900 to 1903, then joined Roosevelt's press entourage on a train trip. According to the papers nominating the studio to the National Register of Historic Places, "the president personally urged him to start a photographic news service in Washington because it was so difficult at that time for out-of-town newspapers to get timely photographs of notable people and events in the Nation's Capital."[1]
Harris and Ewing opened their studio in 1905.
In 1955, the company gave some 700,000 glass and film negatives to the Library of Congress, which preserves them as the Harris & Ewing Collection in the Prints and Photographs Division. Largely taken in and around Washington between 1905 and 1945, the photos portray people, events, and architecture.[2] Many are scanned and online.[2]
Harris died in 1964 at age 92.[2]
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Ollie M. James, photograph, the Harris & Ewing photo studio
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References [edit]
- ^ Livingston, Michael (2000-11-13). "Harris & Ewing studio was photographer to presidents". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved 2011-01-11.
- ^ a b c Livingston, Michael (2000-11-13). "Harris & Ewing Collection". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2011-01-11.
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