Diplomats

Exterior view with diplomat and journalist W. Averell Harriman and wife Marie posed next to a group of four children and an adult. Thought to have been taken while W. Averell Harriman and party were touring in Uzbekistan. 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). 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.

Interior view of author and diplomat Charles W. Thayer wearing a suit and tie and seated in a chair near a door in an unknown location. Scanned image from negative held by Library.

Stanley Andrews (foreground, right), head of the Technical Cooperation Administration, is escorted from an airplane to a car upon his arrival in Tehran, Iran. Walking with him is William Warne, the head of the Technical Cooperation Administration in Iran. Others in the background are unidentified.

William E. Warne, head of the Technical Cooperation for Iran (right), examines baby chicks imported from the United States through the Point Four Program in cooperation with the Government of Iran for its livestock improvement program. All other men in the photo are unidentified.

Arthur Z. Gardiner in the passenger seat of a car and a man identified as Mr. Lewis in the driver seat. The exact location is unknown.

Full body view of a man dressed in a suit, coat and hat. The man may be diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer, no identification as to person or place given. Library has original negative.

Full body view of a man dressed in a suit, coat and hat. The man may be diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer, no identification as to person or place given. Library has original negative.

View of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer beside a recently shot warthog while on safari. Taken while on safari in Africa near Juba, Sudan. Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and Sudan in 1961. Photos of the safari in Sudan intended for a possible magazine article. Original 35mm negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

German Ambassador York Wendland (left), United States Economic Counselor Arthur Z. Gardiner (center), and a man identified as Shei Pei Quen chatting over drinks at the BNCI Opening, somewhere in Vietnam.

From left to right, Lady Franks, wife of Ambassador Sir Oliver Franks from Great Britain; Sir Stafford Cripps; and Assistant to the President John R. Steelman speak to each other at an unknown event.