Agriculture

Exterior view showing diplomat W. Averell Harriman talking to a group of unidentified Russian farm workers. Believed to have been taken at a collective farm not far from Kiev in the Ukraine. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev. Original negative.

Interior view taken in a cow barn or agricultural facility. Diplomat W. Averell Harriman is standing next to an unidentified woman on the left with a partial view of a cow on the right. This may have been taken when Harriman visited the Ukrainian National Exhibition of Industrial and Agricultural Progress in Kiev. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Exterior view showing diplomat W. Averell Harriman talking to a group of unidentified Russian farm workers. Believed to have been taken at a collective farm not far from Kiev in the Ukraine. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev. Original negative.

Interior view taken in a cow barn or facility. Diplomat W. Averell Harriman is standing next to an unidentified woman on the left with a partial view of a cow on the right. This may have been taken when Harriman visited the Ukrainian National Exhibition of Industrial and Agricultural Progress in Kiev. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Interior view, men seated around table with map of Russia in view. Identified on back of photograph as "Gov. Harriman conferring with Mr. [Vladimir] Matskevich Soviet Minister of Agriculture." Meeting took place in Moscow. Other individuals in photograph not identified. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA).

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from right) with Charles Brannan, former Secretary of Agriculture and General Counsel, National Farmers Union (right) during a press conference in Denver, Colorado. All other individuals are unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from right) with Charles Brannan, former Secretary of Agriculture and General Counsel, National Farmers Union (right) during a press conference in Denver, Colorado. All other individuals are unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from right) with Charles Brannan, former Secretary of Agriculture and General Counsel, National Farmers Union (right) during a press conference in Denver, Colorado. All other individuals are unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman (second from right) with Charles Brannan, former Secretary of Agriculture and General Counsel, National Farmers Union (right) during a press conference in Denver, Colorado. All other individuals are unidentified.