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W. Averell Harriman in Russian Cow Barn

2008-1306-20
Accession Number
2008-1306-20
1x1.5
Black & White
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NAID 350476558
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Agriculture
Cattle
Diplomats
HST Keywords
Russia
People Pictured
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
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Description
Interior view taken in a cow barn or agricultural facility. Diplomat W. Averell Harriman is standing next to an unidentified woman on the left with a partial view of a cow on the right. This may have been taken when Harriman visited the Ukrainian National Exhibition of Industrial and Agricultural Progress in Kiev. 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)
May 1959