Interior view which includes a group of six individuals seated on the floor. Thought to have been taken while W. Averell Harriman and party were touring in Uzbekistan, perhaps at a cotton farm in Zangata near Taskent. Charles W. Thayer accompanied W. Averell 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.