Charles W. Thayer

View of palm trees and water described as the Well of Moses where Moses was supposed to have found sweet water for his followers after crossing the Red Sea. 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 illustration. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

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.

Exterior view of a house or cottage with two cars and people described in collection by Charles Thayer as a "cottage at an Egyptian-Italian oil camp on the Gulf of Suez where we spent our first night." Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. Original negatives came with the photos.

Exterior view which shows a man and his camel near the Oasis of Feran in the Sinai Peninsula. Described by Charles Thayer as "a Bedouin and his camel outside the Oasis." Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. 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.

View of three children described by Charles Thayer as three Bedouin children photographed while at Wadi Feran. Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. 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.

Exterior view which shows lion sculpture and a man standing by it next to the Suez Canal. Scene described by Charles Thayer as "the British lion angrily defending the Suez Canal." Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. The original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library photo collection.

Expansive view of the Suez Canal in Egypt. Charles Thayer described the view as "the Suez Canal seen from a ferry looking southward toward the Gulf of Suez." Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library photo collection.

Exterior view which includes a group of people seated at a table under a partial roof. Described by Charles Thayer as "lunching at the Oasis of Faran." Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. 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.

Exterior boat view with several people seen on a ferry and described as the Charles Thayer party's baggage being lowered into a ferry to take them across the Suez Canal. Photograph part of a group taken on a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. 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.

View which contains a mountain in the background and a desert oasis. Described by Charles Thayer as "the garden of the Oasis of Feran." Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. 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.