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I Am Looking for Words



Title I Am Looking for Words
Artist/Maker Associated Press
Date 1931–1939 ca.
Medium Photograph, black and white
Dimensions h. 10 x w. 8 in. (h. 25.4 x w. 20.32 cm)
Credit Line U.S. Senate Collection
Accession Number 38.01249.001


  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
  • Stamp (verso, top left, in blue ink): COMPOSING N. C.
    Stamp (verso, top left, in blue ink): JUN 9 3 10 PM '75
    Stamp (verso, top center, in blue ink): RRS 55777
    Inscription (verso, top right, handwritten in graphite): 1 - col / Spats / Blue
    Newspaper clipping (verso, center, in black ink): from the men's fashion world / [illeg.] at the sad state of the / [image of spat shoes] / SPATS / Never a dead item / "They keep the bugs off / the feet" / Jones of Gingiss Bros. prob- / ably never thought of that.
    Stamp (verso, center on newspaper clipping, in red ink): FEB 25 1958
    Inscription (verso, center under newspaper clipping, handwritten in graphite): [illeg.]
    Newspaper clipping (verso, center, in black ink): "I am looking for words that will enable me to talk less and do more," / explained James Hamilton Lewis, democratic seantor from Illinois, as he / was snapped thus poring over a dictionary in the senate office building / in Washington, D.C., yesterday. [The Associated Press.]
    Inscription (verso, bottom, in red ink): + Action Sat / 3 18 x 2 1/8 [circled]
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