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Exterior view identified on back of photograph as "Gov. Harriman inspecting grounds of Likhachev auto works with plant manager Krylov [Krilov], left, interpreter." According to Thayer's diary accounts the visit would have occurred on May 15, 1959. Location is Moscow. 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. Photograph taken during his 1959 Russian trip. It may have been taken at the Elektrosila Turbine Plant in Leningrad, May 20, 1959. 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.

Interior view, believed to have been taken during W. Averell Harriman's 1959 Russian trip, at the ZIL Automobile Factory, formerly the Stalin Automobile Factory, in Moscow. John Kenneth Galbraith can be seen in the center accompanied by other American economists. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on a trip to Russia 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. Photograph taken during his 1959 Russian trip. It may have been taken at the Elektrosila Turbine Plant in Leningrad, May 20, 1959. 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.

Interior view with diplomat W. Averell Harriman (right) shown visiting with unidentified industrial workers taken while on a 1959 Russian trip. Exact location 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.

Steel water tank construction with machine shop and warehouse, Permanente Metals Corporation construction project, Oakland, California.

North side of mill and pellet building, also a dolomite storage bin, Permanente Metals Corporation construction project, Oakland, California.

South side of mill and pellet buildings, Permanente Metals Corporation construction project, Oakland, California.

Pellet Machine operation in the Permanente Metals Corporation, while under construction.

General view of reduction plant construction at the Permanente Metals Corporation, Oakland, California.