W. Averell Harriman Touring Textile Factory During 1959 Tour of the Soviet Union
Interior view with W. Averell Harriman standing on the left in a white short sleeve shirt and looking at a bolt of cloth. It is known by Thayer's typewritten account of the trip that the Harriman party visited the Stalinabad Textile Kombinat factory located in Stalinabad, Tajikistan and perhaps that is the location. Thayer's account states: "At the packaging department at the end of the factory we noted bolts of plain white bleached cotton 76 cm. wide." The city of Stalinabad was changed back to the name Dushanbe later. Charles W.