W. Averell Harriman Seen in Farm Field During 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union
Exterior view with diplomat and journalist W. Averell Harriman standing on the left next to an unidentified farmer. Thought to have been taken while W. Averell Harriman and party were touring in Uzbekistan, perhaps at a cotton farm at Zangata near Tashkent. 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).