Sawyer, Charles, 1887-1979

A group of men, including a military officer. Clarence Osthagen (Assistant Secretary for Department of Commerce) is on the left, Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer is second from right. Other men unidentified.

Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer swears in Clarence H. Osthagen as Administrative Assistant Secretary of Commerce.

Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer swears in Clarence H. Osthagen as Administrative Assistant Secretary of Commerce.

Charles Sawyer, Secretary, United States Department of Commerce and Clarence Osthagen, Assistant Secretary, United States Department of Commerce, (at right) with unidentified African American men at The Sixth Conference on The Negro in Business at the Commerce Department Auditorium in Washington, D.C.

Charles Sawyer, Secretary, United States Department of Commerce, (third from right) and Clarence Osthagen, Assistant Secretary, United States Department of Commerce (second from right) with unidentified African American men at The Sixth Conference on The Negro in Business at the Commerce Department Auditorium in Washington, D.C.

Thomas K. Finletter, Secretary of the Air Force; Clarence H. Osthagen, Assistant Secretary, United States Department of Commerce; Charles Sawyer, Secretary of Commerce.

Autographed photo of Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer. "To a valued and very agreeable associate, Charles H. Osthagen, with best regards. Charles Sawyer."

Autographed photo of Charles Sawyer. "Regards to Clarence Osthagen, Charles Sawyer."

President Harry S. Truman and his cabinet posing at Blair House. Left to right seated: Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson; Secretary of State Dean Acheson; President Truman; Vice President Alben Barkley; Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder; Attorney General Tom Clark. Back row: Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug; Postmaster General Jesse M. Donaldson; Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan; Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer; and Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin.

President Harry S. Truman (center background, in large hat) is standing on the USS Augusta, receiving visitors upon his arrival in Antwerp, Belgium. Also present are Ambassador Charles Sawyer (left foreground, facing camera); Major General Harry Vaughan (back left, without hat); Captain James Vardaman (just in front of General Vaughan); Admiral William D. Leahy (to left of President Truman); General Dwight Eisenhower (just in front of Admiral Leahy); and Secretary of State James Byrnes (facing General Eisenhower, with dark band on his hat). All other military officers are unidentified.