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Westport Men's Wear Company Owned by Eddie Jacobson

This is a nighttime photo of Westport Men's Wear Company owned by Eddie Jacobson. It was at the corner of 39th and Main Street in Kansas City, Missouri. The sign over the door reads, "Arrow Shirts" and below that, "Botany 500." The signs above the awnings are the same both left and right. They read, "Hart Schaffner & Marx Clothes" and "Eddie Jacobson." A daytime photo is 2008-269. Photo 2008-277 shows an interior view. From: Elinor Borenstine. Donor: Elinor Borenstine, daughter of Eddie Jacobson.

W. Averell Harriman While on 1959 Tour of the Soviet Union

View includes W. Averell Harriman in suit looking at what appears to be perhaps a store window. Believed to have been taken while he was touring in Stalinabad, Tajikistan. Charles W. Thayer accompanied 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.