Warehouses

Women loading train cars at the subsistence warehouse, Nevers, France, during World War I. Donor: Frank Freidel, who obtained these photographs from the National Archives.

Houston warehouse of the Republic Supply Company, a division of Republic Steel Corporation.

Original caption: Salonica warehouse and quay destroyed by Germans, now rebuilt by AMAG [American Mission for Aid to Greece].

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews, standing on the left in a dark suit, 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 accompanied by a group of unidentified Navy officers and a civilian and appears to be touring a warehouse where at this location wooden crates are being made.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews, standing second from the left, 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 accompanied by a group of unidentified Navy officers and appears to be touring a shop area of some sort at this military supply center.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews is shown in the center of the photograph wearing a hat and suit. He is on an inspection tour of the U.S. Naval Supply Center located in Oakland, California. He appears to be in a warehouse facility and inspecting some type of assembly line operation. Unidentified assembly line workers, Navy officers and another man are also in view.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews is shown with various U.S. Naval officers while on an inspection tour of the Naval Supply Center located in Oakland, California. The men appear to be in a warehouse and standing by a U.S. Navy ground coffee box unit.

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Matthews is shown second from the left wearing a suit and hat. He is on an inspection tour of the Naval Supply Center (later called the Fleet and Industrial Supply Center) located in Oakland, California. He is in a warehouse looking at a roaster machine with four unidentified U.S. Naval officers and another man.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (center, back to camera, in civilian clothes) inspects a warehouse in the port of Whittier, Alaska. All other armed forces officers and soldiers in the photo are unidentified.

Industry destroyed in Tokyo, Japan. Photo appears to have been taken inside a warehouse. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).