Administrative agencies

Portrait of Raymond M. Foley, Administrator, Housing and Finance Agency. Original photograph oversized.

National Historical Publications Committee Conference meeting at the National Archives, Washington, D. C.

President Harry S. Truman (right) and Clyde B. Aitchison, of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgway addressing the Inter-American Defense Board, on the occasion of the Board's fifth anniversary.

Senator Harry S. Truman and railroad officials leaving the White House after conferring with President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the rail situation. Front row, left to right: Joseph B. Eastman of the Interstate Commerce Commission; Charles D. Mahaffie of the Interstate Commerce Commission; Carl Gray, Vice-chairman of the Missouri Pacific Railway; Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr.; George Harrison, head of the Railway Labor Executives Association; William O. Douglas, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

President Harry S. Truman (center) with Charles E. Wilson (left), formerly President of the General Electric Company, preparing to take the oath of office as Director of the Office of Defense Mobilization, as Chief Justice Fred Vinson (right) prepares to administer the oath in the Oval Office.

Banquet of the Building Trades Council at the Hotel Kansas Citian, Kansas City, Missouri. Original is oversize.

Seal of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

George L. Warren, right, a long time principal adviser on refugees and displaced persons for the Department of State (right), talks with and Herbert Lehman, Director of Foreign Relief and Rehabilitation Operations in the State Department, 1943 (left).

Photograph is part of a collected group of photos belonging to Francis P. Matthews as Secretary of the Navy and associated with the United States Philippine War Damage Commission. View is identified as the Finance Building located in Manila, Philippines, after reconstruction under the Philippine Rehabilitation Act of 1946.