Webb, James E. (James Edwin), 1906-1992

Charles J. Donlan (right), Associate Director of the NASA Langley Research Center, greets an unidentified man while James E. Webb, NASA head (center) looks on.

Inspecting the research vehicle flown at the NASA Langley Research Center's Lunar Landing Research Facility are (from left) James E. Webb; Dr. Elmer B. Staats; Senator John L. McClellan of Arkansas (at controls); and Donald E. Hewes. They are in Hampton, Virginia.

A research scientist in a space suit during a study of problems that will be encountered by man walking on the lunar surface during this demonstration. Senator John L. McClellan (second from right) communicates with the engineer. Observing the research are James E. Webb, NASA head (right); Dr. Floyd L. Thompson, Langley Director (second from left); and Donald E. Hewes, Langley scientist.

James E. Webb, NASA head (second from left), speaks to Senator John L. McClellan (Arkansas), during McClellan's visit to the 16-foot Transonic Wind Tunnel of NASA Langley Research Center. McClellan stands with arms folded. The others are unidentified.

A smiling James E. Webb, head of NASA, is shown with an unidentified man, who is wearing a formal military costume, during the Goddard Memorial Dinner held at the Sheraton-Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.

James E. Webb (center), Administrator of NASA, receives a Western pistol as a gift from a visiting group. Senator Strom Thurmond is on Webb's left.

Senator Strom Thurmond (third from left) and James E. Webb (fourth from left), Administrator of NASA, sits in a large group photograph. The event is unknown.

President Lyndon B. Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson (she is at left) are shown greeting an unidentified couple at an airport. NASA head, James E. Webb, and his wife, Patsy, are on the far right.

The Missile Sites Labor Commission is shown in the Oval Office of President John F. Kennedy. James E. Webb, head of NASA, is on the far left, and the President in the center.

Snapshot of three men and a woman, in bathing dress, standing by a swimming pool. James E. Webb, who was Director of the Bureau of the Budget from 1946-1949, is on the right. The others are unidentified. The photo is from the James E. Webb papers, and it is concluded that the series of snapshots numbered 97-1653 through 97-1727 are of places he had visited and his relatives or acquaintances. Each includes an original snapshot size negative and is on a contact sheet of three pictures a page.