Livestock on Farm in Japan
Cattle in the foreground with crops and a building in the background on a strawberry farm near Atsugi, Japan.
Exterior view showing diplomat W. Averell Harriman posed with a group of unidentified officials and Russian farm workers. Believed to have been taken at a collective farm not far from Kiev in the Ukraine. 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.