Businessmen

President Harry S. Truman, seated, meets with leaders of Kiwanis International. From left to right, standing are Ford Worthing, O.E. Peterson, Hamilton Holt, and George E. Stringfellow.

Henry Ford II (right) presented President Harry S. Truman (second from right) with a new 1946 Ford Super Deluxe Tudor Sedan by Henry Ford II at the White House, the first American car built for civilian use since February of 1942. From the scrapbooks of Matt Connelly, Vol. 1.

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.

Clarence H. Osthagen, Assistant Secretary, United States Department of Commerce, giving official greeting at The Sixth Conference on The Negro in Business at the Commerce Department Auditorium in Washington, D.C.

Stanton Griffis (Left) and an unidentified man riding in an antique car. Two American flags fly on the front of the car. Handwritten in ink on the front of the photo are the words: "Complements of Toll Bridge [illegible]."

Stanton Griffis, center, with pipe, stands with unidentified Paramount Pictures executives at the train station.

David K. Niles, partially faded out, stands behind a group of four unidentified people who are sitting on an overturned rowboat at the edge of a lake. They are all dressed up, the men in suits and ties.

Portrait of David K. Niles. Back of photo reads, "David K. Niles, manager of Nous Theatrical Pictures Department, Famous Players Lasky Corporation." There are two copies of this photograph. Similar to photo 2009-2308.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (right) with hand extended toward a helicopter at an airfield in Torrance, California. Standing beside him are: (left to right) Edward Linderman, Assistant to President of American Helicopter Company; Corwin Denney, President of American Helicopter Company; Cecil R. King, Representative of the 17th Congressional District of California. An unidentified man stands in the background.