Hospitals

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (right) pauses in an unofficial tour of the United States Hospital, Camp Edwards, Massachusetts to chat with 2nd Lieutenant Leo B. Eldridge, a Korean veteran double amputee. Looking on is Captain Sue G. Carey, Army Nurse Corps.

Interior view of dining area in what was once the palace and at time of photograph a state sanitarium. W. Averell Harriman is standing in the center of the photograph with his wife Marie to the left of him. Identified by Thayer in his typewritten account of the trip as "the Conference Hall of the Yalta Conference, now a gleaming white dining room." 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).

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace, second from the right, visits a soldier who is a patient at the Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco, California. Others in photo are unidentified.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (second from left) visits an African-American solider who is a patient at Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco, California. Two doctors standing on the left and right are unidentified.

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman seen on the left in a white coat standing among a group of children seated at tables. He may be visiting a children's hospital while he was touring in Stalinabad, Tajikistan. 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). 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.

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman seen on the left in a white coat standing among a group of children seated at tables. He may be visiting a children's hospital while he was touring in Stalinabad, Tajikistan. 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). 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.

Unidentified Toyo Kogyo Company, Limisted, employees and visitors tour the company hospital's Cobalt 60 therapy room. Pictured: Mrs. Emily Gardiner (third from right). Mrs. Gardiner's husband, Arthur, is United States Economic Minister to Japan.

Unidentified employees of Toyo Kogyo Company show Arthur Z. Gardiner (right), Economic Minister for the United States Embassy in Tokyo, the operating room of the company's attached hospital.

Unidentified Toyo Kogyo hospital employees and visitors view the closed circuit TVs installed in the nurses station. Pictured: Mrs. Emily Gardiner (third from right). Mrs. Gardiner's husband, Arthur, is United States Economic Minister to Japan.

Exterior view with W. Averell Harriman and Yalta sanitarium director, Dr. Ostrovski, on steps with sanitarium in background. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Mr. 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.