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View Taken During Averell Harriman's 1959 Russian Trip

2008-1304
Accession Number
2008-1304
1x1.5
Black & White
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NAID 350475136
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Buildings
Diplomats
Journalists
Waterways
HST Keywords
Russia; Soviet Union
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Description
View of a line of buildings situated along a waterway. Perhaps taken in Leningrad during diplomat Averell Harriman's 1959 Russian trip. 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.
Date(s)
1959