Hunting

Cynthia Thayer, wife of Charles W. Thayer, can be seen outside walking down a path with an unidentified hunting guide and his dog. She and her husband were on a hunting trip believed to have been located in the Bavarian part of Germany. Both Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia were fond of hunting in European settings, especially in Germany.

Charles Thayer is seen on the left and his wife Cynthia on the right. They are both participating in a hunting trip thought to have taken place in the Bavarian region of Germany. They are standing by what appears to be a small wooden shrine with a deer head visible at the bottom of the structure. Both are dressed in traditional hunting garb and were known to be fond of hunting in European settings, especially in Germany.

Exterior view with a young Charles Thayer standing beside an automobile and holding ducks recently shot. At his feet are two dogs. The duck shooting expedition he was on took place 75 miles outside of Moscow near Zagorsk, Russia. Those mentioned in Thayer's typewritten account that went along with him included: Eddy Page, Grecia, a Red Army Brigadier General, the chief warden of the Army preserve and guides. Charles Thayer was living in Moscow, Russia at the time.

View showing Charles Thayer trying to push a car that is stuck in the mud. Thayer was on a duck shooting expedition near Zagorsk (Sergiyev Pasad) while he was living in Moscow in 1935. He explains this photo as "the darkness caught up with us and we got stuck in the mud way over our axles."

Exterior view of a group of Russians and a dog posed by an automobile and taken during a duck hunting expedition near Zagorsk, Russia. Charles Thayer went with the group. Others he mentions in his typewritten diary that others that went include: Eddy Page, Grecia, a Red Army Brigadier General, the chief warden of the Army preserve and local guides. Charles Thayer was living in Moscow at the time in 1935.

Assistant Secretary of Labor John W. Gibson hunting.

Informal snapshots of former Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder (right) duck hunting with unknown persons.

Informal snapshot of former Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder (right) standing beside an unknown man on a duck hunting trip.

Exterior view of a man and rifle, possibly Charles Thayer, posed by a deer recently shot and laying on the ground. Probably taken at the Thayer's vacation home in Bavaria, Germany. Original 35mm negative is in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

Exterior view believed to be diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer kneeling and holding the rack of a recently shot deer. The hunt probably took place at the family's vacation home in Bavaria. (This photo was from a contact sheet for which we have original negatives).