Senator Charles W. Tobey seated in a leather chair, chin on his fist, with other men standing and seated behind him. — Open the full imageJPG, 829 × 1024 px, 0.1 MB

Senator Charles W. Tobey, 1939 (Library of Congress, Harris & Ewing)

Harris & Ewing photograph of Senator Charles W. Tobey, May 25, 1939, eleven years before the Kefauver Committee. It does not show the hearings.

Date: 1939-05-25
Kind: photograph
Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: The Library of Congress rights advisory on the item record reads "No known restrictions on publication." Collection: Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division (gift of Harris & Ewing, Inc., 1955). Call number: LC-H22-D- 5018 [P&P]. Reproduction number: LC-DIG-hec-29284.

The Library of Congress gives the caption received with the collection: “Washington, D.C., May 25. A new informal photograph of Sen. Charles Tobey, republican, of New Hampshire.” The caption is the photographer’s, not verified by the Library. The date is May 25, 1939.

This photograph predates the Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce by about eleven years and does not show its hearings. It is filed here only as a portrait of one of the committee’s members, who is named as a member on the Senate Historical Office page.

itemSenate Historical Office: the Kefauver Committee, Notable Senate InvestigationsThe U.S. Senate Historical Office's account of the Special Committee on Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce: its resolution, chairmen and members, funding, extension, and television audience. A secondary account written by the Senate.