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W. Averell Harriman and Wife Touring During 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

2008-1350-31
Accession Number
2008-1350-31
1x1.5
Black & White
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NAID 350476678
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Historic sites
Journalists
Tombs
HST Keywords
Russia; Soviet Union; Uzbekistan
People Pictured
Harriman, Marie Norton Whitney, 1903-1970
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
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Description
Interior view, exact location not given. W. Averell Harriman and his wife Marie are standing in the center of the photograph. Believed to have been taken in Samarkand, Uzbekistan while the Harriman's were touring the Soviet Union in 1959. According to Thayer's account of the trip, while in Samarkand they did visit "at the Shah Zindah which contains a series of magnificent tiled tombs..." Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. 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)
June 1959