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.
Cargo being unloaded from ships. Military trucks move over a bridge. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Premier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt of United States and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain at Tehran Conference in Iran.
Two train loads of lend lease material in Khorramshahr,Iran. A train loaded with M-4 tanks and another loaded with crate trucks and heavy goods move away.
Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and his wife, Queen Fawzia, and an entourage of Iranian officers, inspect United States military installations in Tehran. United States Military officials greet the royal couple. Major General Donald H. Connolly (wearing glasses), Commander of the U.S. Army Persian Gulf Command steps forward to greet the Royal couple. Shoulder patch of the Persian Gulf Command (a scimitar and 7-pointed star) is seen on his uniform. General Connally salutes and removes his cap, as he takes the hand of Queen Fawzia. He introduces a Brigadier General to the Royal couple and then all proceed down a path. Large radio antennas are seen dimly in the background. The Shah and Empress emerge from the broadcast facilities of the American Expeditionary Station Tehran, and General Connolly helps Queen Fawzia into a U.S. jeep. An American soldier driver gets into the jeep. The Shah, Queen, and party are escorted by the American officers along a path to the "Service Club", as American soldiers stand to the side. They are seen later, coming out of the Service Club. The party poses for photographs.