Villages

View looking along a village or town walkway. Photograph is unidentified. Several adults and children are in view as well as a partial view of a bridge over a waterway running alongside the town. Probably taken while author and diplomat Charles Thayer was on vacation or assignment.

View of a village not identified but believed to be Wadi Halfa situated on the Nile River in extreme northern Sudan. Image includes people and a view of street life. 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.

View of a village and houses near Palembang, Indonesia. The photograph was taken during a trip to the Far East by United States Ambassador-at-large Philip C. Jessup and party. All individuals are unidentified.

En route to the 38th Parallel, Ambassador Philip C. Jessup's (not pictured) party visits a village in the Republic of Korea. All individuals are unidentified.

En route to the 38th Parallel, Ambassador Philip C. Jessup's (not pictured) party visits a village in the Republic of Korea. All individuals are unidentified.

Exterior view taken in an unidentified location in Mongolia. Includes a native seated on milk can with drink in his hand. View also includes a partial view of a truck and other natives in the background. 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.

Exterior view showing a few native men seated under a tent with their shoes off and in view. Pots and other receptacles can be seen. Probably taken in Afghanistan or northern India.

View of the shelled village of Cheppy when the 1st Division entered, showing a Red Cross wagon surrounded by military vehicles and American troops. From: Lillian R. Craig, Scotland County Public Library, Memphis, Missouri.

North Korean village scene. Photograph taken from the Pauley Special Train during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Village in North Korea. Photograph taken from the Pauley Special Train during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).