Spouses

View includes Mrs. James C. (Mary) Dunn, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to Italy (1946-1952), seen bending over and holding the hand of a small child. Ambassador Dunn is partially in view on the right seen from the back wearing a suit. The photograph was apparently taken at a Christmas party, perhaps held at the U.S. embassy in Rome. Other children and adults in view are not identified. The time period is probably the early 1950s.

Full body view of United States Secretary of State Dean Acheson and his wife Alice dressed in formal attire. Photograph taken while they were in Rome, Italy, where Mr. Acheson, as head of the United States delegation, attended a meeting of the eighth session of the North Atlantic Council (NATO).

Snapshot of Florence and Press Secretary Charles Ross at a pool party with unidentified others.

Exterior view of Cynthia Thayer, wife of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer, posed kneeling with her gun beside some type of recently shot wildlife. Apparently taken at the Thayer's vacation home located in Bavaria. Original 35mm negative.

Interior view showing a group of men and women seated in a room attending an event. The woman in the front row, second from the right in a light dress and hat is the wife of the United States Ambassador to Italy (1946-1952), Mrs. James C. Dunn (Mary). She is seen in Palermo, Italy attending, with the ambassador, the inauguration ceremonies of the enlarged quarters of the United States Information Service (USIS).

United States Ambassador to Italy (1946-1953), James C. Dunn, is seen toward the left of the photograph wearing a light colored suit and looking upward. He is attending an air show at the Guidonia Airport near Rome. The woman in the dark dress holding a light colored purse may be Mrs. Dunn. Others are not identified.

Exterior, group scene of various men and women in attendance at the Levant Fair held in Bari, Italy. The woman who is seated seventh from the left in the front row is believed to be Mrs. James C. Dunn (Mary), wife of the United States Ambassador to Italy. Some of the men are in military uniform.

Exterior, full body view of Cynthia Thayer, wife of author and diplomat Charles W. Thayer. She is posed with her gun and binoculars and a hunting dog nearby. Photograph taken during a hunting trip, probably in a European setting although exact location unknown. Image scanned from original negative held in Library.

Exterior view with diplomat and journalist W. Averell Harriman and wife Marie posed next to a group of four children and an adult. Thought to have been taken while W. Averell Harriman and party were touring in Uzbekistan. 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.

Exterior view which shows Cynthia Thayer, wife of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer, standing with an unidentified man by what appears to be a historic site. According to Charles Thayer's curriculum vitae: "In 1955 I made an extended tour of European and Asiatic Russia and wrote a series for the Saturday Evening Post on post-Stalinist Soviet Union." Although not identified, this photograph is believed to have been taken during that trip, probably in Uzbekistan and perhaps in Samarkand.