Darkish Photo of W. Averell Harriman Touring While on His 1959 Tour of the Soviet Union
Interior view with a full-body view of W. Averell Harriman in the center. Believed to have been taken while Harriman and his party were touring in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, near or at the Registan. 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 35mm negative.