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President Harry S. Truman (left) watches as Secretary of State Edward Stettinius signs the United Nations Charter at the San Francisco conference. Others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) watches as Secretary of State Edward Stettinius signs the United Nations Charter at the San Francisco Conference. Standing on the far right is Senator Theodore Green. All others are unidentified.

President Harry S. Truman (left) and Secretary of State Edward Stettinius (second from left) watch as Senator Tom Connally signs the United Nations Charter at the San Francisco conference. Others are unidentified.

The Opening Session of the Potsdam Conference poses for photographers. President Harry S. Truman is near the center at the back end of the table, wearing a bow tie. Clockwise around the table, starting at President Truman: Charles Bohlen; two unidentified men; British foreign minister Anthony Eden; Prime Minister Winston Churchill; unidentified British military officer; Clement Attlee; unidentified man; Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov; Joseph Stalin; two unidentified men; Admiral William D. Leahy; Secretary of State James Byrnes.

Secretary of Defense Charles E. Wilson announces the Power for Peace Photographic exhibit official open by cutting a satin ribbon. He was accompanied by (left to right) Secretary of the Navy Robert B. Anderson; Rear Admiral Lewis S. Parks, Navy Chief of Information; General Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff; Secretary of the Air Force Harold E. Talbott; General of the Army Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (mostly obscured); Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens; and General John Hull, Vice Chief of Staff, Army.

Austrian Vice-Chancellor Adolf Scharf (right)visits Maurice J. Tobin, Secretary of Labor, at his office in Washington. "Visit of His Excellency, Adolf Schaerf, Vice-Chancellor of Austria, to the United States of America, March 1-21, 1952"

Austrian Vice-Chancellor Adolf Scharf is greeted by Philip M. Kaiser, Assistant Secretary of Labor. From the Department of State Album: "Visit of His Excellency, Adolf Schaerf, Vice-Chancellor of Austria, to the United States of America, March 1-21, 1952"

Secretary Dean Acheson (right) confers with Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran (left) at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington D.C. From photograph album "Visit of his Excellency Mohammad Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran, to the United States of America, October 6 to November 18, 1951."

Secretary of the U.S. Navy Francis P. Matthews is shown standing beside a poster prepared for the Treasury Department's Independence Bond Drive. The Liberty Bell is pictured on the poster.

Scene shows crowd of people who were in attendance for the commencement ceremonies at Scranton University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Secretary of the U.S. Navy Francis P. Matthews attended the event with his wife.