Agriculture

Charles S. Murphy, Under Secretary of Agriculture (1961-1965) is seated second from the right. He is listening to a panel report at a national 4-H conference. Exact location not given. Others in view are not identified.

Charles S. Murphy is seen on the right attending the annual reception of the Graduate School of the United States Department of Agriculture. The man on the left is not identified. Murphy was Under Secretary of Agriculture, 1960-1965. Exact location of event not given.

Under Secretary of Agriculture (1961-1965) Charles S. Murphy is standing on the left and presenting citations at a national 4-H conference. Others in view are not identified.

Identification accompanying photograph reads: "A close-up view of the Certificate of Honorary Membership in the USDA [United States Department of Agriculture] Club of Greater Kansas City, presented to Under Secretary Charles S. Murphy at the club's annual Awards Dinner in Kansas City, Missouri, Wednesday, May 6, 1964. Mr. Murphy spoke to the club on current legislation."

Under Secretary of Agriculture Charles S. Murphy is standing in the center. On the left is labor leader Joseph D. Keenan and on the right is Donald S. Dawson, Washington, D.C. lawyer and one time Truman aide. All three men have name tags on and appear to be attending an unidentified event at the Sheraton Park Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Identification reads: "Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman, left, swears in Charles Murphy, right, as Under Secretary of Agriculture, during a ceremony in Secretary Freeman's office in the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., March 21, 1961." Men in the background are not identified.

Interior view with Charles S. Murphy, Chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board (1965-1968), seated on the left at a table with a cake. Two other men are in view. According to Charles Murphy's appointment book, he had lunch on October 22, 1965 with M. L. Wilson (Milburn Lincoln) and others at the Agriculture Secretary's dining room. Mr. Wilson may be the man seated on the right.

Dillard Lasseter is speaking at a national convention associated with the Department of Agriculture.

Exterior view with Cynthia Thayer, wife of diplomat and author Charles Thayer, standing on the left in a field with an unidentified man, perhaps a guide. Location is not given. 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, perhaps while the Thayers were in Uzbekistan.

Exterior view where W. Averell Harriman is seen standing, second from the right, between two unidentified men and a woman in a wheat field. He may have been visiting the Viktorov State Farm not far from Rudni (Rudnyy), Kazakhstan. Thayer's typewritten account of the visit states "that the farm was started on the 15th of April in 1955." Thayer also writes, "We drove out to the wheat fields over gently rolling country where we could see the green young wheat stretching for miles to the horizon." Charles W. Thayer accompanied W.