Horses

Outdoor view of an unidentified man standing by a horse beside an unknown location. Probably taken when Charles Thayer was a young man. Original negative in Library.

Unidentified exterior view of a loaded wagon or cart being pulled by a team of horses. According to Charles Thayer's curriculum vitae: "In 1955 I made an extended tour of European and Asiatic Russia and wrote a series for the Saturday Evening Post on post-Stalinist Soviet Union." Although not identified, this photograph is believed to have been taken during that trip.

Photograph of an elaborate horse-drawn hearse possibly in Oran, Algeria.

United States Ambassador and Mrs. George McGhee (facing camera in rear seat) ride in a carriage accompanied by Herr Geisendorfer (white hat) during their visit to Rothenberg, Germany. Mr. and Mrs. McGhee were traveling with Lieutenant General and Mrs. Louis W. Truman.

Military post headquarters on the island of Corregidor, Philippines. The man on horseback is unidentified.

Sheriff of Jackson County, Missouri, J.A. Prudhomme participated in the inaugural events held January 19, 1949.

Actor Gene Autry participated in the inaugural events held January, 1949. This photo is a still from the Columbia Pictures motion picture "Loaded Pistols."

View of former New York governor and diplomat W. Averill Harriman, second from left, and Soviet Minister of Agriculture, Vladimir Vladimirovich Matskevich, on the right. Others in view not identified. Believed to have been taken at state stud farm near 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).

Group of camels, horses and natives in a field located somewhere in Mongolia. Charles Thayer headed a party of fourteen Americans who traveled to Mongolia on a vacation in the summer of 1963, probably in June. They arrived at Ulan Bator and during the trip visited the Gobi Desert as well as the steppes of Mongolia and the site of the ancient capital of Karakorum. Thayer states the group travelled through the provinces more than 1000 kilometers by bus and jeep and another 600 kilometers by air. There is an original 35mm negative.

Exterior view with mountains in the background and Mongolian man mounted on his horse. Exact location in Mongolia not given but appears to be the steppes region. Diplomat and author Charles Thayer headed a party of fourteen Americans who traveled to Mongolia on a vacation in the summer of 1963, probably in June. They arrived at Ulan Bator and during the trip visited the Gobi Desert as well as the steppes of Mongolia and the site of the ancient capital of Karakorum.