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W. Averell Harriman Meeting With Soviet Officials

Interior view, men seated around table with map of Russia in view. Identified on back of photograph as "Gov. Harriman conferring with Mr. [Vladimir] Matskevich Soviet Minister of Agriculture." Meeting took place in Moscow. Other individuals in photograph not identified. 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).

Travel Bureau Conference

United States Travel Bureau conference at the Department of the Interior. Clockwise, from lower left: E. I. Paxton, Air Transport Association; H. R. Stutsman, Golden Gate International Exposition; R. W. Tupper, American Automobile Association; Dr. John W. Studebaker; Commissioner of Education; Arno B. Cammerer, Director, National Park Service; unidentified; Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; Nelson A. Loomis, Chief, Travel Bureau; George S. Messersmith, Assistant Secretary, Department of State; Arthur E. Demaray, Associate Director, National Park Service; Dr.

Travel Bureau Conference at Department of Interior

Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (facing camera, left) conducts a United States Travel Bureau conference in the Department of the Interior Building. Facing camera, left to right: Assistant Secretary Chapman; Nelson A. Loomis, Chief, Travel Bureau; George S. Messersmith, Assistant Secretary, Department of State; Arthur E. Demaray, Associate Director, National Park Service; Dr. Ernest Gruening, Director, Division of Territories and Island Possessions; Thomas D. Green, President, American Hotel Association. Back to camera, left to right: unidentified; Arno B.