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City View Taken During W. Averell Harriman's Russian Trip

2008-1298
Accession Number
2008-1298
3.5x4.5
Black & White
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NAID 350475194
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Cities and towns
Waterways
HST Keywords
Russia
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Description
Exterior view of spacious buildings located along a body of water. Taken during W. Averell Harriman's 1959 Russian trip and thought be to Leningrad, Russia. Individual in view is 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. Original negative.
Date(s)
1959