W. Averell Harriman and Ambassador Henry Grady pose with British negotiator and others for group photograph at AIOC petroleum facility in Abadan, Iran. They are escorted in tour by oil facility manager. Images include outdoor towers, pipes, oil tanks.
Iranian employees at work inside the Gas Oil Pump House of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) facility in Abadan, Iran. Large motors and flywheels in motion. One man closes a valve and an affected flywheel slows down and coasts to a halt. Four AIOC supervisors walk out of the pump house. Views upward of various sizes and types of piping.
Views of AIOC plant in Abadan, Iran include: vertical cracking towers, piping, smoke stacks, oil barrels ready for shipment at port., scenes of harbor. Boy on bicycle rides directly towards camera and then veers off.
Premier Ali Amini of Iran at his desk in his office. Premier is seen working in his office. Exterior of an Iranian building. Crowd demonstrating on road in Iran.
Natives in Iran spread oil on water in ditches as part of malaria control efforts. United States Army engineers survey the area in Iran. U.S. engineers take water samples. Water testing laboratory seen. Water tested in Army laboratory. (World War II period).
Polish refugees in Iran during World War II. The refugees walking in an area. People with their personal belongings loaded on carts walk on a street in Poland in 1939. They line up for food. A map locates the route traveled by the refugees. They reach Iran. They receive Red Cross aid. People receive clothes and shoes. They establish a village. People eat food. Children study in schools. Men and women work. They join and serve the U.S. Army.