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

2008-1399-01
Accession Number
2008-1399-01
3.25x5
Black & White
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NAID 350478344
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Journalists
Stadiums
Youth
HST Keywords
Soviet Union; Kazakhstan
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Description
Exterior view of an unidentified stadium with boys and girls seen practicing for a track meet. The location is believed to be Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, then part of the Soviet Union. The city was later named Almaty. 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. There is an original 35mm negative.
Date(s)
June 9, 1959