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W. Averell Harriman Posed With Children During His 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

Exterior view with W. Averell Harriman standing with a group of four unidentified children. Exact location in Soviet Union not determined. 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 35mm negative.

W. Averell Harriman During His 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

Exterior view with W. Averell Harriman standing on the left in a field of some type. Three unidentified females are seen standing next to Harriman. Location not given, may have been in a strawberry field near Alma Ata, Kazakhstan in what was a part of the Soviet Union at that time. Charles W. Thayer accompanied 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).

Group at Driggs Presentation of Maps and Books

Howard R. Driggs (second from left, partly obscured), President of the American Pioneer Trails Association, during the presentation of maps and books as gifts to the Harry S. Truman Library. Also present are Truman Library Museum Curator Milton Perry (left), Mrs. J. Roger DeWitt (fourth from right), and Truman Library Director Dr. Philip C. Brooks (right). Children and other women are unidentified.

Dignitaries and Children in a Courtyard

Image of (left to right) unidentified children, Under Secretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., unidentified woman, Mr. Dodson, unidentified woman, United States Economic Minister to Japan Arthur Z. Gardiner (mostly obscured by second woman), Mr. Satani, and unidentified woman in a courtyard at an unidentified location in Japan. In the background is a house or other structure.