W. Averell Harriman Visiting Facility During Russian Trip
Interior view with W. Averell Harriman standing second from the left. He is visiting an unidentified facility during his 1959 Russian trip. Others in view are unidentified. 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). 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 negative.