Rivers

A view of a Buddhist temple in Pyongyang, North Korea, looking north across the Taedong River.

Exterior, expansive river view believed to be the Dnieper (Dnipro) River at Kiev in the Ukraine. Photograph taken during W. Averell Harriman's 1959 Russian trip. 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). 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 35mm negative.

Left to right: Catherine Bixler, Mildred Dryden, and Reathel Odum pose for a picture next to the Potomac River. All three women served as secretaries to Senator Harry S. Truman.

View of building beside a body of water with Mongolian native and other men looking on. No exact identification or location in Mongolia. 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. Thayer states the group travelled through the provinces more than 1000 kilometers by bus and jeep and another 600 kilometers by air.

The ruins of Burg Rheinfels castle in St. Goar, Germany, overlooking the Rhine River. John Redding acquired this photo when he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Air Force in World War II.

Photo of a church next to a river near Remagen, Germany. John Redding acquired this photo when he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Air Force in World War II.

Bridge and castle near Heidelberg, Germany. John Redding acquired this photo when he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Air Force in World War II.

Unidentified man stands at a river site of a mass killing by the Japanese during World War II, in the Batangas Province, Luzon, Philippines. Donor: John Paxton

Riverfront view probably taken from a boat. Image shows the shore line of the upper Nile River and beyond. Probably taken in southern Egypt. Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and Sudan in 1961. Photos of the safari in Sudan intended for a possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

The Grand Coulee Dam across the Columbia River in Washington state. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook