Studio portrait of Jesse Walter Fewkes.
Handwritten on mount: With the regards of J. Walter Fewkes. February 1918.
Biographical/Historical note:
The Harris & Ewing photo studio was started in 1905 by George W. Harris and Martha Ewing as both a portrait studio and news service. Famous for their portraits of presidents and administration officials, the studio was the largest in Washington, DC, and photographed as many as 10,000 people a year after the sale of the news service in 1945. Harris & Ewing closed in 1955.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 78-20
Location of Other Archival Materials:
Additional portraits of Jesse Walter Fewkes can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 33.
Additional photographs by Harris & Ewing can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 24, Photo Lot 33, and Photo Lot 77-80.
The Library of Congress holds the Harris & Ewing Collection of glass and film negatives.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Studio portraits
Citation:
Photo lot 78-20, Harris & Ewing portrait of Jesse Walter Fewkes, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
