Cabinet officers

Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce, is presenting an award to an unidentified lady at a Department of Commerce Honor Awards Ceremony. Clarence H. Osthagen, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, is on the right.

Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce, presenting an award to an unidentified man at a Department of Commerce Honor Awards Ceremony. Clarence H. Osthagen, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, is on the right.

Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce (third from left), is presenting an award to an unidentified man at a Department of Commerce Honor Awards Ceremony. Clarence H. Osthagen, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, is on the far right. The officer next to Mr. Sawyer is unidentified.

Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce (second from left), is presenting an award to an unidentified man at the Department of Commerce Honor Awards Ceremony. Clarence H. Osthagen, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, is on the far right. The officer next to Mr. Sawyer is unidentified.

Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce (second from right), is presenting an award to an unidentified man at a Department of Commerce Honor Awards Ceremony. Clarence H. Osthagen, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, is on the right.

Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce (second from right), is presenting an award to an unidentified man at a Department of Commerce Honor Awards Ceremony. Clarence H, Osthagen, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, is on the right.

U.S. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell is standing at a podium and addressing a U.S. Labor Department senior staff meeting. The location is not named but appears to be a small auditorium room with a stage.

View of Labor Department officials arriving in Nashville, Tennessee, for an IAPES (International Association of Personnel in Employment Security) meeting or conference. Robert C. Goodwin, Labor Department's Bureau of Employment Security, is standing second from the right. The man second from the left is believed to be Martin P. Durkin, Secretary of Labor from January - September, 1953. All are standing with the Nashville Airport in the background. Others in view are not identified.

A committee of seven members is posed around a table. U.S. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell is seated in the center at the end of the table. Labor Department official Robert C. Goodwin is seated to the left of Mitchell. Goodwin's appointment book indicates there was a department committee meeting on older workers held that day. The other men and women in view are not identified.

View of Labor Department officials arriving in Nashville, Tennessee, for a IAPES (International Association of Personnel in Employment Security) meeting or conference. Robert C. Goodwin, Labor Department's Bureau of Employment Security, is standing second from the right. The man in the center, second from the left and shaking hands is believed to be Martin P. Durkin, Secretary of Labor from January - September, 1953. All are standing with the Nashville Airport in the background. Others in view are not identified.