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W. Averell Harriman During His 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

2008-1403
Accession Number
2008-1403
2.5x2.5
Black & White
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NAID 350476808
Related Collection
Thayer, Charles W. Papers
Keywords
Agricultural laborers
Children
Farms
Journalists
HST Keywords
Kazakhstan; Russia; Soviet Union
People Pictured
Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986
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Description
Exterior view with W. Averell Harriman standing on the left in a field of some type. Three unidentified females are seen standing next to Harriman. Location not given, may have been in a strawberry field near Alma Ata, Kazakhstan in what was a part of the Soviet Union at that time. 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. Has a negative.
Date(s)
June 1959