Military supplies

Pile of shoes worn out by U.S. Army in France during World War One. Donor: Frank Freidel, who obtained these photographs from the National Archives.

President Harry S. Truman is shown magnetic airborne detector equipment, with officers looking on. From the album of the President's vacation trip to Key West, Florida.

Stereograph of French Soldiers making an inventory of an abandoned German Supply depot in Soupier, France during World War I. Donor: George J. Paulson to HST 3-3-66.

Stereograph of enemy airmen successfully bombing one of our supply trains (Allies) - Official Report. Donor: George J. Paulson to HST 3-3-66.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews, standing in the center wearing a top coat, is seen while on an inspection tour of the Naval Supply Center (later called Fleet and Industrial Supply Center) located in Oakland, California. He is standing with a group of unidentified Navy officers and they are looking at aerial photographs which are probably of the supply station. A ship is in view behind them.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews, standing in the center wearing a top coat, is seen while on an inspection tour of the Naval Supply Center (later called Fleet and Industrial Supply Center) located in Oakland, California. He is standing with a group of unidentified Navy officers and they are all in a small boat with a larger ship in the background.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews, standing in the center wearing a top coat, is seen while on an inspection tour of the Naval Supply Center (later called Fleet and Industrial Supply Center) located in Oakland, California. He is standing with a group of unidentified Navy officers and they are looking at an aerial photograph resting on an easel and which is probably the supply station. A ship is in view behind them.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews, standing in the center wearing a top coat, is seen while on an inspection tour of the Naval Supply Center (later called Fleet and Industrial Supply Center) located in Oakland, California. He is standing with a group of unidentified Navy officers and they are close to a boat.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews, standing in the center wearing a top coat, is seen while on an inspection tour of the Naval Supply Center (later called Fleet and Industrial Supply Center) located in Oakland, California. He is standing with two unidentified Navy officers and passing by a group of U.S. Marines standing at attention.