Dinners and dining

Unidentified Geisha dancers perform at a dinner for the Toyo Kogyo Company. Attendees at the dinner included Arthur Z. Gardiner, United States Economic Minister to Japan, and his wife, Emily (both not pictured).

Arthur Z. Gardiner (center), Economic Minister for the United States Embassy in Tokyo, and wife, Mrs. Emily Gardiner (left), at a dinner sponsored by Toyo Kogyo Company Limited. All others unidentified.

Arthur Z. Gardiner (second from right), Economic Minister for the United States Embassy in Tokyo, and wife, Mrs. Emily Gardiner (second from left), have a traditional Japanese dinner with Tsuneji Matsuda (center), President of Toyo Kogyo Company, Limited. All others unidentified.

Dinner guests watch a performance by Geisha dancers. Pictured, left side of table: Mrs. Emily Gardiner (third from left); and Arthur Z. Gardiner, Economic Minister for the United States Embassy in Tokyo (fourth from left). All others are unidentified.

Unidentified Geisha dancers perform at a dinner for the Toyo Kogyo Company. Attendees at the dinner included Arthur Z. Gardiner, United States Economic Minister to Japan, and his wife, Emily (both not pictured).

A group at an informal dinner given by General Mark W. Clark at his home in Vienna, Austria, for Ambassador Edwin W. Pauley, personal envoy of President Harry S. Truman, who conducted a reparations tour.

Mrs. Edwin Pauley (center, closest to camera) seated at a round table with other passengers at dinner aboard the S. S. Lurline, traveling to Hawaii.

Overall view of the Truman Committee Reunion banquet at the Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C. President Truman is seated in the back row, second from the right. Original photo is in oversize file (9.5x16.5).

Interior view of dining area taken during W. Averell Harriman's 1959 Russian trip. Identified by Thayer in his typewritten account of the trip as "the Conference Hall of the Yalta Conference, now a gleaming white dining room." 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 of dining area taken during W. Averell Harriman's 1959 Russian trip. Identified by Thayer in his typewritten account of the trip as "the Conference Hall of the Yalta Conference, now a gleaming white dining room." 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).