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[Edward B. McLean before Senate committee investigating naval oil leases] – Antique Print

[Edward B. McLean before Senate committee investigating naval oil leases], 1924 March 12. — historic photograph
[Edward B. McLean before Senate committee investigating naval oil leases], 1924 March 12.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Newspaper publisher Edward Beale McLean appears in this March 1924 photograph before a Senate committee probing the leasing of naval oil reserves. McLean owned the Washington Post and was a friend of Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall, whose 1921 handling of the Teapot Dome reserve in Wyoming became the center of the scandal. The Navy had set aside those reserves to fuel its ships as they shifted from coal to oil, so the hearings drew wide public attention. The caption details for this print come from an older card and have not been independently checked.

Created / published1924 March 12.
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsPhoto by National Photo Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Congress, U.S.--Senate--Committee 1924; McLean, Edward Beale, d. 1941, newspaper propr.; BI; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,234 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-136626

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