Oil industries

Two unidentified men sitting at table full of telegrams, evidently related to the oil industry or the oil pipeline.

Ed Price (left), General Superintendent, Lorain Works; Harold L. Ickes (center), Petroleum Administrator for War; and B.F. Fairless (right) during an inspection of 24 inch pipe for a 550 mile pipeline.

Ralph K. Davies (left), Deputy Petroleum Administrator for war, and William R. Boyd, Jr. (right), Chairman of the Petroleum Industry War Council, carrying telegrams from the Executive office of the White House regarding the progress of the Rubber Stockpile Drice which they and Secretary Harold Ickes have just exhibited to the President.

Secretary Harold Ickes (at right), Petroleum Administrator for War, taking a White House door mat after he and Bill Boyd, Chairman of the Petroleum Industry War Council, presented to the President the Council's report of the amount of rubber collected by the petroleum industry. Others unidentified.

Members of a joint U.S.-British Conference on International Oil Resources that met for the initial exploratory session in Washington, D.C. Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War fifth from left; Charles Raynor, U.S. State Department Chairman sixth from left; Commodore A.F. Carter, US Navy seventh from left; Sir William Brown, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.B.E., Secretary of the Civil Defence Department and head of the British Delegation fifteenth from left; and Brigadier General Howard Peckham, US Army, Representing the War Department eighth from left and Commodore A.W.

Charles Raynor (left), U.S. State Department Chairman and Sir William Brown (right), K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.B.E., Secretary of the Civil Defense Department and head of the British Delegation at the Discussion between the United States and United Kingdom on the Petroleum Question at the State Department in Washington, D.C.

Men at the State Department prior to discussing the preliminary points on petroleum questions between the United States and the United Kingdom. From left to right: Commodore A. F. Carter, U.S. Navy; Commodore A. W. Clarke, Chief of Staff to British Admiralty Delegation to Washington; and Brigadier General Howard Peckham, U.S. Army, Representing the War Department.

Men at the State Department prior to discussing the preliminary points on petroleum questions between the United States and the United Kingdom. From left to right: Commodore A.F. Carter, U.S. Navy; Commodore A.W. Clarke, Chief of Staff to British Admiralty Delegation to Washington; and Brigadier General Howard Peckham, U.S. Army, Representing the War Department.

Charles Raynor (left), U.S. State Department Chairman, and Sir William Brown (right), K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.B.E., Secretary of the Civil Defense Department and head of the British Delegation at the Discussion between the United States and United Kingdom on the Petroleum Question at the State Department in Washington, D.C.

Members of a joint U.S.-British Conference on International Oil Resources that met for the initial exploratory session in Washington, D.C. From left to right: Sir William Brown, K.C.B., K.C.M.G., C.B.E., Secretary of the Civil Defense Department and head of the British Delegation; Charles Raynor, U.S. State Department Chairman; Ralph K. Davies, Deputy Petroleum Administrator for War (fifth); Commodore A.W. Clarke, Chief of Staff to British Admiralty Delegation to Washington (eleventh); Commodore A.F.