Farmers

Former President Harry S. Truman speaks at the Future Farmers of America Convention at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. He is almost full length, at podium. See also photos 2004-174, 2004-215, and 93-200.

W. Averell Harriman can be seen standing and second from the right in a dark suit, no hat. He is with a group of unidentified men. He may have been visiting the Viktorov State Farm not far from Rudni (Rudnyy), 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).

Exterior view where W. Averell Harriman in light short sleeved shirt talking with an unidentified farmer standing near farm equipment. He may have been visiting the Viktorov State Farm not far from Rudni (Rudnyy), Kazakhstan. Thayer's typewritten account of the visit states "that the farm was started on the 15th of April in 1955." He also writes, "We visited a field station where young state farmers were repairing their equipment." Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959.

W. Averell Harriman is standing on the left with a group of what is believed to be farm workers and may have been taken while Harriman was visiting the Viktorov State Farm not far from Rudni (Rudnyy), 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.

Photograph includes a group of what is believed to be farm workers and may have been taken while Harriman was visiting the Viktorov State Farm not far from Rudni (Rudnyy), 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. Original 35mm negative.

W. Averell Harriman is standing on the left with a group of what is believed to be farm workers and may have been taken while Harriman was visiting the Viktorov State Farm not far from Rudni (Rudnyy), 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.

Numerous unidentified workers are carrying harvested crops in from the field at Binh Tuy, Vietnam.

View of rows of crops on a farm with two unidentified farmers at an unidentified location in Japan. A city and industrial development is visible in the background.

View of rows of crops on a farm and two unidentified farmers at an unidentified location in Japan. There is a city and industrial development visible in the background.

W. Averell Harriman is standing on the left and shaking hands with an unidentified native. His interpreter may be the person on the right. Thought to have been taken while W. Averell Harriman and party were touring in Uzbekistan, perhaps at a cotton farm at Zangata near Tashkent. 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).