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Car Caravan in the Desert of Sin

2008-1211-08
Accession Number
2008-1211-08
1x1.5
Color
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NAID 350477090
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Automobiles
Vacations
HST Keywords
Desert of Sin; Egypt; Sinai Peninsula
Rights

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Credit:
Charles W. Thayer

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
View of mountainous terrain showing a two-car caravan and people described by Charles Thayer in his papers as "two of our three-car-caravan in the Desert of Sin as we struck east from the Gulf of Suez into the mountains of the interior of the Sinai Peninsula." Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mr. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.
Date(s)
March 1961