Oil industries

Image of numerous docked boats with a city in the background. This location is possibly associated with the Hohnen Oil Company, Japan.

The top of two storage tanks belonging to the Hohnen Oil Company of Japan (lower right). Also visible is the harbor entrance near the center of the photograph.

Deputy Petroleum Administrator Ralph K. Davies is standing and speaking at a banquet in his honor by the Petroleum Industry War Council. They are at the Statler Hotel in Washington, D. C. Secretary of the Interior, Harold Ickes is seated at left. Original photograph is in oversize file.

An oil rig set up on public lands in California. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

Norman Taylor, member of the Reparations Mission, displays a drum of American-made oil at Japanese sub-station at Anshan, Manchuria. Rusted oil drums stand and lay in the grass in front of a power grid. A group of unidentified people stands in the background. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Philip Bohart (left) and Ralph K. Davies (right) at party. Ralph K. Davies is the Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War. From scrapbook.

Group of people eating at party. From left to right around table: Justin Wolf; J.R. Parten; Curly Caminita; Ralph K. Davies (Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War); J. Howard Marshall; Gordon Sessions; Philip Bohart; Bob Friedman; Ed Haffel (half out of picture); Max Ball; George Fuller; and Sam Hill. Server unidentified. From Ralph K. Davies Scrapbook.

Group of people eating at party. From left to right around table: Curly Caminita; Ralph K. Davies (Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War); J. Howard Marshall; Gordon Sessions; Philip Bohart; Bob Friedman; Ed Haffel; Colonel Wilk; Elmer Batzell; Sam Botsford; Adolph Levy; Dr. John Frey; E.J. Skidmore; Lucien Craig; Chan Ide; Fred Jayne; Max Ball; and George Fuller (barely in photo). From Ralph K. Davies scrapbook.

Group of people eating around table at party. From left to right: E.J. Skidmore; Lucien Craig; Chan Ide; Fred Jayne; Max Ball; George Fuller; Sam Hill (behind Fuller); Ed Littlefield; Dave Brandt; Bill Daffron; Captain Dave Hudson; Justin Wolf; J.R. Parten; Curly Caminita; Ralph K. Davies (Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War); and J. Howard Marshall (almost in picture). From Ralph K. Davies Scrapbook.

Group of people at party. From left to right: Adolph Levy (background); E.J. Skidmore; middle group: Fred Jayne; Ed Littlefield; Colonel Wilk; far back center: Sam Botsford; leaning on bar laughing. All others unidentified. The guests are probably connected to the oil industry. From Ralph K. Davies Scrapbook.