Landscape

Countryside view taken in Sudan while on safari. Charles Thayer describes as "a herd of 200 wild animals including zebras, ostriches, baboons, water-buck, etc." Taken while on safari near Juba, Sudan. Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and Sudan in 1961. Photos of the safari in Sudan intended for a possible magazine article. Original 35mm negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

View includes an unidentified waterway among rocky outcrops in a mountainous area. Location of photograph is not given. Probably taken while author and diplomat Charles Thayer was on vacation or assignment.

View of mountains and land, located in Mongolia. Exact location not given. Diplomat and author Charles Thayer headed a party of fourteen Americans who traveled to Mongolia on a vacation in the summer of 1963, probably in June. They arrived at Ulan Bator and during the trip visited the Gobi Desert as well as the steppes of Mongolia and the site of the ancient capital of Karakorum. Thayer states the group travelled through the provinces more than 1000 kilometers by bus and jeep and another 600 kilometers by air.

Very faded color snapshot the reflecting pool and terrace at Chateau Saint-Martin, taken during former President Truman's trip to Vence, France. (See also 2009-1899) From: Truman Home.

Very faded color snapshot of a large, columnar tree taken at Chateau Saint-Martin during former President Truman's trip to Vence, France (See also 71-3204.) From: Truman Home.

View of grasslands and trees believed to be near Juba in southern Sudan and identified by Charles Thayer as "a saddled-billed stork in the savanah." Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and Sudan in 1961. Photos of the safari in Sudan intended for a possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

Unidentified image but presumably an area near the Nile River in either southern Egypt or northern Sudan. Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and Sudan in 1961. Photos of the safari in Sudan intended for a possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

View of grasslands and trees believed to be near Juba in southern Sudan and identified by Charles Thayer as "a saddled-billed stork in the savanah." Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and Sudan in 1961. Photos of the safari in Sudan intended for a possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

Rugged, rocky mountainous area similar to others in the collection identified as in Afghanistan.

Scenic view of the terrain in New Mexico. The photograph was taken during a trip to New Mexico to interview Dr. Sophie Aberle.