Journalists

Exterior view with W. Averell Harriman standing in the center with an unidentified man who may be his interpreter on the right. A group of native women are seated on a bench behind Harriman and a lion sculpture or statue is visible in the background in front of a building. Exact location not known. 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 is seen standing, second from the left, between two unidentified men and a woman in a wheat field. 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." Thayer also writes, "We drove out to the wheat fields over gently rolling country where we could see the green young wheat stretching for miles to the horizon." Charles W. Thayer accompanied W.

Exterior view where W. Averell Harriman is seen in the center in a short sleeve shirt talking with an unidentified male farm worker standing near farm equipment. One of the two men on the right may be his interpreter. 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.