Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Z. Gardiner Outside Matsuyama Castle
Image of Arthur Z. Gardiner (right) and Emily (Mrs. Arthur Z.) Gardiner outside Matsuyama Castle in Matsuyama City, Japan.
Interior view with W. Averell Harriman standing in the center in a white short sleeved shirt and his wife Marie is standing next to him on the right. They are believed to be in Stalinabad, Tajikistan, in the Soviet Union. The other two men in the photograph are not identified but may be the prime minister. 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).