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100th Anniversary - 100 Years of Commerce
     
 
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1942 War Production Board Sugar Policy Committee
The Bureau's electric van, with "Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce and Labor," 1903
Commerce Department building at 19th Street and Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. around 1909.
George B. Cortelyou 2/1903 to 6/1904
Two Indian women and a boy sit by their baskets on Second Avenue, outside the Frederick & Nelson department store in downtown Seattle, Washington. 1912
Oscar Solomon Straus 12/1906 to 3/1909
Charles Nagel 3/1909 to 3/1913
Eastland disaster, William C. Redfield, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce sitting at a table
William Cox Redfield 3/1913 to 10/1919
Man working on vertical filing cabinets. 1920
Commerce employee in research files. 1920
Fred D. Fagg, Jr. Chief of Air Commerce Bureau, Department of Commerce.1921
Joshua Willis Alexander 12/1919 to 3/1921
Export Enforcement Exibit
Main Entrance Commerce Building
Labor Conference on Unemployment 9/26/21
An employee of the National Bureau of Standards listens to a radio broadcast picked up by one of the first homemade crystal detector sets.
Herbert Clark Hoover 3/1921 to 8/1928
NOAA National Weather Service Meteorologists preparing a forecast.
Commerce Department brass doors being designed and built
Secy Hoover addresses guests at the 1929 laying of the first cornerstone of the Commerce building
Herbert Clark Hoover 3/1921 to 8/1928
Early view of Ellipse and White House
Herbert Clark Hoover on new radio set
Signing the Farm Relief Bill 6/15/29
William Fairfield Whiting 8/1928 to 3/1929
Early construction of Commerce building
Archway pillars
East facade early construction of Commerce building
Robert Patterson Lamont 3/1929 to 8/1932
Roy Dikeman Chapin 8/1932 to 3/1933
Roy Dikeman Chapin 8/1932 to 3/1933
Commerce research library
Daniel Calhoun Roper 3/1933 to 12/1938
South east corner,14th & Constitution view of Commerce Building
Commerce staffers looking at daily headlines. 1941
Harry Loyd Hopkins 12/1938 to 9/1940
North facade Commerce Building view from Pennsylvania Avenue
Commerce Secretary's reception area.
Herbert Hoover and Staff, Chicago
Jesse Holman Jones 9/1940 to 3/1945
14th Street and Constitution Avenue entrance of the Department of Commerce building
1942 War Production Board Sugar Policy Committee
Playing tennis in the park in front of the U. S. Department of Commerce building on Sunday afternoon. July, 1942.
Honorable William A. M. Burden, Special Aviation to Secretary of Commerce; Willard E. Givens, Executive Secretary, National Education Association; John W. Studebaker, U. S. Commissioner of Education. Seated, left to right: the Honorable ralph A. Bard, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the War Manpower Commission (WMC) ; Robert P. Patterson, the Undersecretary of War.
Combined Munitions Assignments Board at weekly meeting in Washington, with Chairman Harry Hopkins presiding (1943).
Combined Munitions Assignments Board at weekly meeting in Washington, with Chairman Harry Hopkins presiding (1943).
Guests at luncheon celebrating second anniversary of len-lease, on March 11, 1943, at Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C., examine dehydrated food
Dr. Don Francisco Castillo Najera, Mexican ambassador to the United States and Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones at luncheon of dehydrated food held March 11, 1943, at the Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C
Jesse Holman Jones 9/1940 to 3/1945
2 women key punch operators
computer classroom
Henry Agard Wallace 3/1945 to 9/1946
Winston Churchill with William verall Harriman
HCHB auditorium
William Averell Harriman 10/1946 to 4/1948
Secretary's Office
At its dedication in 1950, the National Bureau of Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC)
Preservation by NBS in 1951 of the Declaration of Independence (shown) and the Constitution of the United States
Charles Sawyer 5/1948 to 1/1945
Charles Sinclair Weeks 1/1953 to 11/1958
Frederick Henry Mueller 8/1959 to 1/1961
Luther Hartwell Hodges 1/1961 to 1/1965
John Thomas Connor 1/1965 to 1/1967
Newsman Walter Cronkite and two Commerce employees on computer panel
ESSA 7 Satellite launched August 16, 1968.
Alexander Buel Trowbridge 6/1967 to 3/1968
Cyrus Rowlett Smith 3/1968 to 1/1969
hip in Charleston, South Carolina, 1970
Early commerce airplane
Maurice Hubert Stans 1/1969 to 2/1972
Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson swears in the first woman officer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Commisioned Corp
Peter George Peterson 2/1972 to 2/1973
Frederick Baily Dent 2/1973 to 3/1975
Frederick Baily Dent 2/1973 to 3/1975
Rogers Clark Ballard Morton 5/1975 to 2/1976
Employees attending conference
Employees attending conference
Elliot Lee Richardson 2/1976 to 1/1977
Juanita Morris Kreps 1/1977 to 10/79
Commerce employees in large furnished room
Philip M. Klutznick 1/1980 to 1/1981
Malcom Baldrige with Imelda Marcos
Malcom Baldrige 1/1981 to 7/1987
Malcom Baldrige 1/1981 to 7/1987
Two employees by commerce exibit
Three employees holding discussion at table
Night view of Commerce Building
Secy Verity with visiting dignataries
C. William Verity swearing-In with Pres. Ronald Reagan
C. William Verity 10/1987 to 1/1989
HCHB main lobby
Robert Adam Mosbacher 1/1989 to 1/1992
Robert Adam Mosbacher 1/1989 to 1/1992
Commerce employee with electronic equipment
Main Entrance Commerce Building
Barbara Hackman Franklin 2/1992 to 1/1993 w/ President Bush Sr.
Barbara Hackman Franklin 2/1992 to 1/1993 w/ President Bush Sr.
Aerial view of Commerce Building and Potomac
Secretary's Conference Room
Aerial view of Commerce Building
Ronald Harmon Brown 1/1993 to 3/1996
Ronald Harmon Brown 1/1993 to 3/1996
Archways in Main Lobby
Mickey Kantor 4/1996 to 1/1997
Pennsylvania Ave. Entrance to Commerce
William M. Daley 1/1997 to 7/2000
Computer room
Commerce employees in Library
Records at Patent Office
commerce employees at computer terminals
Norman A. Mineta 7/2000 to 1/2001
Employee at file cabinet
arge audience at HCHB auditorim
Secretaries Powell and Evans at State Department
Pres Bush and NOAA staff at display table
Dep. Secy Bodman and NOAA Staff speaking in front of audience
ecy Evans with kids in school
ecy Evans and Dep Secy Bodman at podium
Secy Evans speaking at podium
ecy Evans shaking hands with group
ecy Evans at podium
BEA exibit with two employees
arge audience seated in room during BIS conference
Testimony to Capitol Hill members
Large BIS conference in HCHB Lobby
Mr. Kincannon of Census Bureau and Secy Evans
roup standing in front of Jobs for your community poster
MBDA exibit with 2 Staffers
Commerce Building north east corner, 14th & Penn.
Malcolm Baldrige Award Ceremony with Secy Evans
Nancy Victory during hearing at Russell Building, Capital Hill
Secy Evans with Pres. of Mexico
Secy Evans with Medal winners
Secy Evans and Pres. Bush presenting Baldrige Award
Secy Evans with several visiting dignataries in conference room
Secy Evans during Russian visit conference
Donald L. Evans 1/2001 to present

 
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