W. Averell Harriman During 1959 Tour of the Soviet Union
Interior view with W. Averell Harriman seated at a desk. He appears to be signing a visitor's log book of some type. It is believed that he is in Stalinabad, Tajikistan, on a day that he visited a museum and a children's hospital. 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).