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Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (standing) first meeting of OPA training program for price control, December 1, 1942. Auditorium, Social Security Building, Washington, D.C.

Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Admini...

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Office of Price Administration Regional Administrators with Mr. Henderson. Regional Administrators of the Office of Price Administration with Leon Henderson (seated), OPA Administrator, just prior to his retirement from office. Shown standing are, left to right: Harry F. Camp, San Francisco; John C. Weigel, Chicago; Sylvan L. Joseph, New York; Maxwell McCullough, Dallas; Kenneth B. Backman, Boston; Oscar R. Strauss, Atlanta; Birkett L. Williams, Cleveland; Clem E. Collins, Denver; Rupert Emerson, Territories and Possessions

Office of Price Administration Regional Administrators with Mr. Hender...

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Leon Henderson, administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA): director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board

Leon Henderson, administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA): d...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Caption card lists some of the printing history for image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United Stat... More

Dr. Edgar G. Brown, Director of the National Negro Council, shown with Leon Henderson, Office of Price Administration Administrator (OPA), and Donald Gordon, Chairman of the Canadian Wartime Prices and Trade Board, at the announcement of the price control order. Dr. Brown is working with OPA on the price regulation as it affects the Negro race in America

Dr. Edgar G. Brown, Director of the National Negro Council, shown with...

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Sugar rationing. What every householder will know! Mrs. Leon Henderson, wife of the Office of Price Administration's (OPA) head, goes through the routine of registering for her sugar rationing book, assisted by Dr. Elmer S. Newton, superintendent of Western High School, Washington D.C. Nationwide registration will be held from May 4th through May 7th. That's Mrs. Henry Wallace, wife of the vice-president, at left

Sugar rationing. What every householder will know! Mrs. Leon Henderson...

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Leon Henderson and staff. Deputy administrators of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) with Leon Henderson, Administrator, in Washington, D.C. just prior to Mr. Henderson's retirement from office. Seated, left to right, J.K. Galbraith, Mr. Henderson, John E. Hamm, David Ginsburg. Standing, left to right, Dexter M. Keezer, Paul M. O'Leary, Paul A. Porter, Edward N. Hay, Robert W. Horton

Leon Henderson and staff. Deputy administrators of the Office of Price...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leon Henderson gets the first proof of war ration book no. 1 from a press at the Government Printing Office (GPO)---acting public

Leon Henderson gets the first proof of war ration book no. 1 from a pr...

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Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1941. Seated left to right: Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to the President, supervising lend-lease Program; William S. Knudsen, Director-General of the Office of Production Management (OPM); Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Board; Donald M. Nelson, Executive Director of the Board and Director of the Priorities Division, OPM. Standing, left to right: James V. Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy (who was present in place of Secretary Frank Knox, out of town on this day and unable to be present); Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War (sitting in for Secretary of War Stimson, who was unable to attend); Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director of the Civilian Supply Division, OPMt; Sidney Hillman, Associate-Director of Labor Division, OPM

The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Wash...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Leon Henderson, administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA): director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board

Leon Henderson, administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA): d...

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Leon Henderson gets the first proof of war ration book no. 1 from a press at the Government Printing Office (GPO)---acting public

Leon Henderson gets the first proof of war ration book no. 1 from a pr...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Dehydrated foods. Top war agency officials lunch on dehydrated foods--the kind of food that is being sent overseas to save shipping space. From left to right: Leon Henderson, Price Administrator; Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board (WPB); Brigadier General Carl Hardigg, Office of the Quartermaster General; and William Batt, WPB Vice Chairman. The luncheon was arranged on November 6, 1942 in the Social Security Building by Lee Marshall, Food Consultant to Mr. Nelson, to acquaint war agency officials with the progress that has been made in this country in the field of dehydrated foods. Such dried foods result in savings of up to eighty percent in volume and up to ninety percent in weight

Dehydrated foods. Top war agency officials lunch on dehydrated foods--...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Caption edited by agency. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United Sta... More

Sugar rationing. Even the wife of the Office of Price Administration's (OPA) administrator has to sign up for her sugar quota. Mrs. Leon Henderson enacts the role millions of Americans will go through from May 4th through May 7th, when nationwide sugar rationing goes into effect. She's assisted here by Dr. Elmer S. Newton, Washington, D.C., superintendent of Western High School

Sugar rationing. Even the wife of the Office of Price Administration's...

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Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (standing) first meeting of OPA training program for price control, December 1, 1942. Auditorium, Social Security Building, Washington, D.C.

Henderson rally. Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Admini...

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Meeting between officials of the OPM, Army, Navy and representatives of the automobile industry and the automobile unions, to discuss the problems of conversion in automobile plants. Left to right: R. J. Thomas, UAW-CIO (United Auto Workers-Congress of Industrial Organizations) president; Sidney Hillman, associate general, OPM (Office of Personnel Management); Leon Henderson, director, OPA (Office of Price Administration); Paul Hoffman, president of Studebaker Company; Edsel Ford; William S. Knudsen, direcotr general, OPM; C.E. Wilson, president, General Motors

Meeting between officials of the OPM, Army, Navy and representatives o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Washington, D.C., September 2, 1941. Seated left to right: Harry L. Hopkins, Special Assistant to the President, supervising lend-lease Program; William S. Knudsen, Director-General of the Office of Production Management (OPM); Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States, and Chairman of the Board; Donald M. Nelson, Executive Director of the Board and Director of the Priorities Division, OPM. Standing, left to right: James V. Forrestal, Undersecretary of the Navy (who was present in place of Secretary Frank Knox, out of town on this day and unable to be present); Robert P. Patterson, Undersecretary of War (sitting in for Secretary of War Stimson, who was unable to attend); Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director of the Civilian Supply Division, OPMt; Sidney Hillman, Associate-Director of Labor Division, OPM

The first meeting of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board, Wash...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Leon Henderson and staff. Deputy administrators of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) with Leon Henderson, Administrator, in Washington, D.C. just prior to Mr. Henderson's retirement from office. Seated, left to right, J.K. Galbraith, Mr. Henderson, John E. Hamm, David Ginsburg. Standing, left to right, Dexter M. Keezer, Paul M. O'Leary, Paul A. Porter, Edward N. Hay, Robert W. Horton

Leon Henderson and staff. Deputy administrators of the Office of Price...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, group of people, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Leon Henderson and staff. Deputy administrators of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) with Leon Henderson, Administrator, in Washington, D.C. just prior to Mr. Henderson's retirement from office. Seated, left to right, J.K. Galbraith, Mr. Henderson, John E. Hamm, David Ginsburg. Standing, left to right, Dexter M. Keezer, Paul M. O'Leary, Paul A. Porter, Edward N. Hay, Robert W. Horton

Leon Henderson and staff. Deputy administrators of the Office of Price...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Photographed by Albert Freeman, Alfred T. Palmer or George Danor. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Shining up an administrator. Office of Price Administration (OPA) Leon Henderson gets a shine from one of the first businessmen in the country to comply with the new maximum price regulations. Howard Rae Lynch, fourteen, posted his ceiling prices on June 23, 1942, eight days in advance of the effective date for ceilings on consumer services

Shining up an administrator. Office of Price Administration (OPA) Leon...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Caption edited by agency. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United Sta... More

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Leon Henderson and staff. Deputy administrators of the Office of Price Administration (OPA) with Leon Henderson, Administrator, in Washington, D.C. just prior to Mr. Henderson's retirement from office. Seated, left to right, J.K. Galbraith, Mr. Henderson, John E. Hamm, David Ginsburg. Standing, left to right, Dexter M. Keezer, Paul M. O'Leary, Paul A. Porter, Edward N. Hay, Robert W. Horton

Leon Henderson and staff. Deputy administrators of the Office of Price...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Photographed by Albert Freeman, Alfred T. Palmer or George Danor. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Caption edited by agency. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United Sta... More

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leon Henderson, Administrator, Office of Price Administration (OPA) and Director, Civilian Supply Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), member of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board; conferring in Washington, D.C. September 12, 1941. The chart on the table is a distribution and supply chart. While called together for the purpose of having a picture made, Messrs, Henderson and Nelson seized upon the opportunity to have what they termed "their first real conference in days"

Donald M. Nelson (left), Chairman, War Production Board (WPB), and Leo...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption edited by agency. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division.... More