English: TITLE: First food stamp. Washington, D.C., April 20. The first of the new surplus food stamps came of the presses at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing today. Latest of the administration's plans to reduce the farm surplus, the stamps, of yellow and blue, will be issued to persons on relief who in turn can trade each $1.00 stamp for food worth $1.50. Rochester, New York, will be one of the first half dozen cities to try the new stamp plan

CALL NUMBER: LC-H22-D- 6378[P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-hec-26518 (digital file from original negative)

RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.

MEDIUM: 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller

CREATED/PUBLISHED: [19]39 April 20.

CREATOR:

Harris & Ewing, photographer.

NOTES:

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.

SUBJECTS:

United States--District of Columbia--Washington (D.C.).

FORMAT:

Glass negatives.

PART OF: Harris & Ewing Collection (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original negative) hec 26518 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.26518

CONTROL #: hec2009013216