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President Harry S. Truman (backseat, driver's side) French President Vincent Auriol (backseat, passenger side) and unidentified persons during a welcoming parade in Washington, D.C. for the French President.

Exterior view taken in unknown location in Mongolia. Shows a woman tourist, two native Mongolian men and a vehicle. Charles Thayer headed a party of fourteen Americans who traveled to Mongolia on a vacation in the summer of 1963, probably in June. They arrived at Ulan Bator and during the trip visited the Gobi Desert as well as the steppes of Mongolia and the site of the ancient capital of Karakorum. Thayer states the group travelled through the provinces more than 1000 kilometers by bus and jeep and another 600 kilometers by air.

View which contains two jeeps and five people standing by them, part of the Charles Thayer Mongolian touring party . Charles Thayer headed a party of fourteen Americans who traveled to Mongolia on a vacation in the summer of 1963, probably in June. They arrived at Ulan Bator and during the trip visited the Gobi Desert as well as the steppes of Mongolia and the site of the ancient capital of Karakorum. Thayer states the group travelled through the provinces more than 1000 kilometers by bus and jeep and another 600 kilometers by air.

Exterior view which contains a group of men, mostly Mongolians and some Thayer party tourists, found near a jeep-like vehicle. Exact location in Mongolia is not given. Charles Thayer headed a party of fourteen Americans who traveled to Mongolia on a vacation in the summer of 1963, probably in June. They arrived at Ulan Bator and during the trip visited the Gobi Desert as well as the steppes of Mongolia and the site of the ancient capital of Karakorum. Thayer states the group travelled through the provinces more than 1000 kilometers by bus and jeep and another 600 kilometers by air.

Exterior view which includes a bus and jeep-like vehicle in an unidentified location in Mongolia. Also includes several unidentified people. Charles Thayer headed a party of fourteen Americans who traveled to Mongolia on a vacation in the summer of 1963, probably in June. They arrived at Ulan Bator and during the trip visited the Gobi Desert as well as the steppes of Mongolia and the site of the ancient capital of Karakorum. Thayer states the group travelled through the provinces more than 1000 kilometers by bus and jeep and another 600 kilometers by air.

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. The original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library photo 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 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, mountainous view which includes a couple of people and a car described by Charles Thayer as one of the cars stuck in the deep sand at Wadi Feran as the group was headed east. 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.