Farms

Farm equipment in use on the Truman family farm in Grandview, Missouri. The figure riding the tractor is unidentified.

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.

Unidentified farmers are threshing rice on the My Tho Road in Vietnam.

Image of unidentified farmers threshing rice on the My Tho Road in Vietnam.

Image of unidentified farmers threshing Rice on the My Tho Road, somewhere in Vietnam.

Aerial image of an agroville west of Saigon, Vietnam. Agrovilles were fortified hamlets where rural peasants were forcibly moved during late 1959 through late 1960.

Colonel Cao is standing in a harvested field, somewhere in South Vietnam. Others in the background are unidentified.

United States Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper (left) and Colonel Cao in front of a truck in a harvested field, somewhere in South Vietnam. Others in the background are unidentified.

Chief of Staff of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee Carl Marcy (background, left, in profile) with an unidentified man and woman standing in front of him in an agricultural area somewhere in South Vietnam.

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.