New Chief of U.S. Secret Service. Washington, D.C., Dec. 31. Frank L. Wilson was named Chief of the United States Secret Service today by Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau. He succeeds William H. Moran, who retires after 54 years in the service, the last 19 as Chief. Wilson was "Ace" of the Intelligence Unit of the Bureau of Internal Revenue until his appointment as Acting Assistant Chief of the Secrect Service last Sept. 8. Wilson was born in Buffalo, N.Y. May 19, 1886, and received his education in that city
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A black and white photo of a man in a suit sitting at a desk, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection
Title from unverified data on the negative or negative sleeve.
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 four.
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.)