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Special Collections -- Photographs -- Petroleum

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

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Oil at war: a photographic record, Petroleum Administration for War on the home front, 1942

 Collection
Identifier: U54.O45-1942z
Content Description

Possibly unique photo scrapbook prepared for Ralph K. Davies, Deputy U.S. Petroleum Administrator during World War II under Harold L. Ickes. Shows the leading personnel and some propaganda via 130 black and white photographsall with typed identification. The majority of the photographs are large format (6x9, 8x10, etc.). The album is black cloth embossed in gold with Ralph K. Davies name in lower left corner of front cover

Dates: 1942