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The Boys Say Goodbye to the “Boss”

Black and white photograph of Stephen Marvin Young, Joseph Lister Hill, Robert Thompson Secrest, William Theodore Schulte, Joseph Wellington Byrns, John Joseph O'Connor, Patrick Joseph Boland, and Charles Albert Plumley, standing and smiling. Schulte and Byrns shake hands. On the wall behind them are small oval portraits./tiles/collection/5/5700.xml
Reverse of photograph with maker’s information and a partially torn-off caption/tiles/collection/3/35003.xml
Black and white photograph of Stephen Marvin Young, Joseph Lister Hill, Robert Thompson Secrest, William Theodore Schulte, Joseph Wellington Byrns, John Joseph O'Connor, Patrick Joseph Boland, and Charles Albert Plumley, standing and smiling. Schulte and Byrns shake hands. On the wall behind them are small oval portraits.
Reverse of photograph with maker’s information and a partially torn-off caption
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Date

1935-08-24

Maker

International News Photos

Dimensions

6 9/16 x 8 1/2 in. (16.7 x 21.6 cm)

Accession Number

2008.255.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Speaker of the House Joseph Byrns, who served in Congress for almost 30 years, bid farewell to colleagues as the closing gavel fell on the first session of the 74th Congress. The group included: Representatives Stephen Young; Lister Hill; Robert Secrest; William Schulte; Speaker Byrns; John O’Connor; Majority Whip Patrick Boland; and Charles Plumley. Byrns, who served in the House for 27 years, died unexpectedly the following summer.

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