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View Taken During W. Averell Harriman's 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

2008-1348
Accession Number
2008-1348
2.75x3
Black & White
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NAID 350476810
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Buildings
Fountains
Theaters
HST Keywords
Soviet Union; Uzbekistan
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Description
Exterior view of large building and fountain area in front of the building. Believed to have been taken in the city of Tashkent located in Uzbekistan in central Asia. Building my be the Bolshoi Theater or Opera House. Visiting Tashkent was on Averell Harriman's agenda during is 1959 trip to the Soviet Union. 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. Original negative.
Date(s)
June 1959