W. Averell Harriman on Tour During His 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union
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).