Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman on the left. Photograph taken during his 1959 Russian trip. It may have been taken at the Elektrosila Turbine Plant in Leningrad, May 20, 1959. 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.

View of former New York governor and diplomat W. Averill Harriman, second from left, and Soviet Minister of Agriculture, Vladimir Vladimirovich Matskevich, on the right. Others in view not identified. Believed to have been taken at state stud farm near Moscow. 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).

Interior view, men seated around table with map of Russia in view. Identified on back of photograph as "Gov. Harriman conferring with Mr. [Vladimir] Matskevich Soviet Minister of Agriculture." Meeting took place in Moscow. Other individuals in photograph not identified. 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).

Exterior view which includes W. Averell Harriman in overcoat seventh from the left. May have been taken on May 18 in the afternoon when Harriman visited the Lyukovo prison colony about 40 miles north of Moscow. Exact location not given nor identification of others in view. 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).

Interior view of diplomat and former New York governor, W. Averell Harriman, seen with a group of children. Photograph was taken during Harriman's trip to Russian in 1959. Exact location not given. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Mr. 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.

Interior view with diplomat W. Averell Harriman (right) shown visiting with unidentified industrial workers taken while on a 1959 Russian trip. Exact location not identified. 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.

View of businessman and diplomat W. Averell Harriman standing by a wall sculpture while on a 1959 Russian trip, exact location of photograph not given. 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). 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.

President Harry S. Truman with members of his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House. Clockwise, from left: Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Anderson; Secretary of Labor Lewis Schwellenbach; Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman; Secretary of the Interior Julius Krug; Postmaster General Robert Hannegan; Secretary of War Robert Patterson; Secretary of State George C. Marshall; President Truman; Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder; Attorney General Tom Clark; and Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal.

A group of men attend a formal dinner for a reunion of the Truman Committee at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. Right table: Oscar Chapman (right side, sixth from right). Head table: former President Harry S. Truman (seventh from right); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (eighth from right); Associate Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark (ninth from right). Left table: General Harry Vaughan (left side, fourth form left); W. Averell Harriman (left side, eighth from left); and Congressman Michael J. Kirwan (left side, tenth from left). All others unidentified.

Former President Harry S. Truman poses for a picture with his former Cabinet members during a dinner given in their honor in Washington, D.C. Seated, left to right: John W. Snyder; Dean Acheson; Harry S. Truman; Chief Justice Fred Vinson; and James P. McGranery. Standing, left to right: Senator Clinton P. Anderson; Associate Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark; Charles F. Brannan; Louis Johnson; General George C. Marshall; W. Averell Harriman; Maurice J. Tobin; J. Howard McGrath; and Oscar Chapman.