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Solving a Vintage Mystery

 Executive Meeting at Phillips Petroleum circa 1930's One of the strangest items in the petroliana collection I am selling is this old framed photograph of some sort of executive meeting at Phillips Petroleum company that looks to be from the 1930s. At first glance it looks like an ordinary somewhat boring image of some business men, maybe the board of directors? But look more closely and you will see why I call it very strange and began to think of it as a mystery. In the back lined up on the wall are drawings of men in their underwear. Also in the back on the right hand side are some men standing up against the wall, one of them is partially undressed and another is wearing a whiskey barrel. They both have their hands on the shoulders of another man in between them who is still fully clothed (for the moment?) The rest of the crowd are all turned toward the camera but they are not looking at it. They seem to be focused on something just out of camera range and whatever ...