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Summary
An old black and white photo of two men, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Photograph shows Civil War verterans William H. Jackson and Robert W. Wilson in the passenger cabin of a Boeing 247D airliner, belonging to Pennsylvania Central Airlines (PCA) flying over the Gettysburg battlefield. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018 and neighboring Harris & Ewing image)
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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Date
01/01/1938
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No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html