Cities and towns

Aerial view of a city and beaches with a small harbor in the foreground, somewhere over Japan.

Aerial view of a city and beach with a small harbor in near the lower right corner, somewhere over Japan.

Enormous smoke clouds hover over the heavily bombarded city of Warsaw, Poland. From a series of captured German photographs.

Panoramic view of fireworks over Red Square, Moscow.

A view of North Pyongyang, North Korea, and the Taedong River.

Photo showing the bombed out Reichstag in Berlin after World War II, at the time of the Potsdam Conference.

Exterior view of a city taken along a body of water, thought perhaps to be Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia. 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.

Exterior view of spacious buildings located along a body of water. Taken during W. Averell Harriman's 1959 Russian trip and thought be to Leningrad, Russia. Individual in view is 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). 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.

Aerial view of unknown city, probably somewhere in the Philippines. Donor: John Paxton.

An aerial view of the old Bilibid Prison in Manila, Philippines, which was converted into a prisoner of war camp during World War II. Donor: John Paxton