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Welcoming ceremonies in honor of French President Vincent Auriol. In the front row, from left to right: Secretary of Defense George Marshall, President Harry S. Truman, French President Auriol, Washington, D.C. Commissioner John R. Young, and unidentified men. In the second row are Attorney General J. Howard McGrath (left of Acheson), French Ambassador to the United States Henri Bonnet (between Marshall and Truman), and Secretary of State Dean Acheson (between Truman and Auriol, partly obscured).

Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with French President Vincent Auriol at her home in Hyde Park, during President Auriol's visit to the United States. From left to right: unidentified; Helle Bonnet, wife of French Ambassador Henri Bonnet; Michelle (Mrs. Vincent) Auriol; Mrs. Roosevelt; President Auriol; Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman. The two men on the far left are unidentified.

Luncheon at the home of former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt during the visit of French President Vincent Auriol. Seated clockwise around the table, from left to right: French Ambassador Henri Bonnet, Ann (Mrs. Oscar) Chapman, unidentified man, Helle (Mrs. Henri) Bonnet, unidentified man, unidentified woman.

Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt with French President Vincent Auriol at her home in Hyde Park, during President Auriol's visit to the United States. From left to right: unidentified woman; Helle Bonnet, wife of French Ambassador Henri Bonnet; Michelle (Mrs. Vincent) Auriol; Mrs. Roosevelt; President Auriol; Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; and French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman.

Eleanor Roosevelt with French President Vincent Auriol during a visit to the Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park, New York. He has just presented Mrs. Roosevelt with a medal. From left to right: Michelle (Mrs. Vincent) Auriol, Mrs. Roosevelt, President Auriol, Helle (Mrs. Henri) Bonnet, and Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman.

View of four people standing together on a lawn. Cynthia Thayer is second from the right and her son James (Jimmy) is probably the young man on the left. The other man and woman in view not identified. Location is probably the Thayer vacation home in Germany. Original 35mm negative.

View showing Cynthia Thayer, wife of diplomat and author Charles Thayer, posed with her rifle and seated beside a recently shot deer. Location not given, may have been taken on a hunting trip at the Thayer vacation home in Germany. There is an original 35mm negative for this image.

Outdoor safari view which includes two white hunters and two native men standing beside an animal. Charles Thayer identifies as "myself, my wife and the trackers with the water-buck. (to follow if needed)." Taken while on safari near Juba, Sudan. Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and Sudan in 1961. Photos of the safari in Sudan intended for a possible magazine article. Original 35mm negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

Exterior view of a recently shot cape buffalo with Cynthia Thayer standing next to it. Taken while on safari near Juba, Sudan. Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and Sudan in 1961. Photos of the safari in Sudan intended for a possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

Exterior, full body view of Cynthia Thayer, wife of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer, standing between an unidentified older man on the left and a boy on her right who may be her son Jimmy. Appears to have been taken on the lawn at the Thayer's vacation home in Bavaria. Original negative is in Truman Library collection.