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Students at tables in Stalingrad, Image Taken During W. Averell Harriman's 1959 Tour of the Soviet Union

Interior view with students seated at tables. Location believed to be Stalinabad, Tajikistan and may have been a library which the Harriman party visited. 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.