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Color Photo of Climbing to Top of Mt. Sinai

2008-1213-13
Accession Number
2008-1213-13
1x1.5
Color
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NAID 350476920
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Spouses
Historic sites
Mountains
HST Keywords
Egypt; Sinai Peninsula, Egypt
People Pictured
Thayer, Cynthia Dunn Cochrane, 1922-1987
Rights

Public Domain - This item is in the public domain and can be used freely without further permission.

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Credit:
Charles W. Thayer

Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
View showing parts of the Thayer party climbing the last part to reach the top of Mt. Sinai. Thayer describes as "we climb to the mount on foot. The figure in the foreground is my wife [Cynthia]." Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Mt. Sinai and St. Catherine's Monastery in March 1961. Photos intended for possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.
Date(s)
March 1961