Vacations

View of mountainous terrain showing a two-car caravan and people described by Charles Thayer in his papers as "two of our three-car-caravan in the Desert of Sin as we struck east from the Gulf of Suez into the mountains of the interior of the Sinai Peninsula." Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mr. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. The original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library photo collection.

Exterior view of a house or cottage with two cars and people described in collection by Charles Thayer as a cottage at an Egyptian-Italian oil camp on the Gulf of Suez where we spent our first night. Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

View of mountainous terrain showing a two-car caravan and people described by Charles Thayer in his papers as "two of our three-car-caravan in the Desert of Sin as we struck east from the Gulf of Suez into the mountains of the interior of the Sinai Peninsula." Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mr. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

Exterior view of a house or cottage with two cars and people described in collection by Charles Thayer as a "cottage at an Egyptian-Italian oil camp on the Gulf of Suez where we spent our first night." Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. Original negatives came with the photos.

Exterior boat view with several people seen on a ferry and described as the Charles Thayer party's baggage being lowered into a ferry to take them across the Suez Canal. Photograph part of a group taken on a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March, 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

Exterior view showing two automobiles and several people described in collection by Thayer as Ambassador (G. Frederick) Reinhardt unloading his car at the dock at Suez in Egypt. Photograph taken as part of a trip Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. There is an original 35mm negative.

Interior view of Cynthia Thayer, wife of Charles W. Thayer, seated at a table using a typewriter and what appears to be a cassette tape player. Written on the back of the photograph: "Russian Hunting Trip, 1959."

An unidentified couple on the shore during vacation.

Former President Harry S. Truman receives a bouquet of flowers from an official in Nice, France. Judge Samuel Rosenman is at the far right.

Judge Samuel Rosenman (left) and former President Harry S. Truman, wearing a hat, walk the streets of southern France.