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Kikusui Inn

Entrance to the Kikusui Inn near the Nanzenji temple in Kyoto, Japan. Mrs. Emily Gardiner is pictured inside the front gate. Mrs. Gardiner's husband, Arthur, is the United States Economic Minister to Japan.

Leaving Hiroshima

Mrs. Emily Gardiner (back to camera) says goodbye to the wives of the vice-president and president of Toyo Kogyo Company, Limited, at the Hiroshima Airport. All others unidentified. Mrs. Gardiner's husband, Arthur, is the United States Economic Minister to Japan.

Hiroshima Airport

Mrs. Emily Gardiner (fourth from left) and others in front of the Hiroshima Airport after completing their visit to the Toyo Kogyo Company. All others unidentified. Mrs. Gardiner's husband, Arthur, is the United States Economic Minister to Japan.

Women in Kiev Monastery

Exterior view which contains 4 unidentified Russian women taken in Kiev during Harriman's 1959 Russian trip. Believed to have been taken at the Kiev Pechersk Lavra monastery. The Thayer account reads: "the courtyard was filled with old women collecting holy water in bottles..." Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell 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).