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Color Photo of Area Near the Nile River

View is unidentified but image contains a waterway, probably the Nile River, and a native man. Probably taken in either southern Egypt or northern Sudan. 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.

Water Wheel on the Upper Nile River

Described by Charles Thayer as a water wheel on the upper Nile. Image 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.