Diplomats

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman on the right seated at a banquet table. A bust of Vladimir Lenin in located behind him. Location and event not identified. May have been taken while Harriman was touring in Kazakhstan. 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 with W. Averell Harriman on the left in white coat standing by a group of unidentified people. The picture may have been taken in a brewery in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. 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. Has original 35mm negative.

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman on the left in white coat standing by a group of unidentified people. The picture may have been taken in a brewery in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. 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. Has original 35mm negative.

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman on the right standing by what appears to be a vat or large container. The picture may have been taken in a brewery in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. 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. Has 35mm negative.

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman seated on the right. Other man in view is not identified. A bust of Vladimir Lenin in located behind them. Location and event not identified. May have been taken while Harriman was touring in Kazakhstan. 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 with W. Averell Harriman standing on the right next to an unidentified female worker. They appear to be holding some type of bird. He may be visiting a brewery while in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. 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.

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman on the right standing by what appears to be a vat or large container. The picture may have been taken in a brewery in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. 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. Has 35mm negative.

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman standing on the right next to an unidentified female worker. They appear to be holding some type of bird. He may be visiting a brewery while in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. 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.

Interior view, believed to have been taken in a room in the Kremlin in Moscow as W. Averell Harriman is waiting for his meeting with Nikita Khrushchev. W. Averell Harriman is seated on the left and the man seated on the right is believed to be Charles W. Thayer. The man in the center may be a Mr. Shohukov as noted in Thayer's typewritten account. Harriman's account of the visit can be found in Life Magazine, July 13, 1959, p. 33. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959.

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman on the left in white coat standing by an unidentified female factory worker with others looking on. It is believed that the picture was taken while he was touring a candy factory in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. 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).