Mines and mineral resources

Exterior view taken at what appears to be a mining operation believed to be located in Kazakhstan. It may have been an ore mining operation in Rudniy. Averell Harriman also visited Karaganda which is known for coal mining. Charles W. Thayer accompanied 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.

Exterior view of what appears to be a mining operation believed to be located in Kazakhstan. It may have been an ore mining operation in Rudniy. He also visited Karaganda which is known for coal mining as well as Ekibastuz. Charles W. Thayer accompanied 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.

Unidentified workers mine oil shale at an experimental oil shale plant near Rifle, Colorado. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

Rescue workers carry a man out of a mine during a safety methods demonstration at the Bruceton, Pennsylvania experimental mine. All are unidentified. From: Oscar Chapman Scrapbook

Escorted by miners, President Harry S. Truman waves from the back seat of an automobile as he rides in a motorcade in Butte, Montana, during his Presidential campaign trip to the West Coast. (See 66-688 for same photo). From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Escorted by miners, President Harry S. Truman and an unidentified man perch on the rear seat of an automobile at the start of a motorcade in Butte, Montana, a stop on his Presidential trip to the West coast. (See also 2012-207) From: Naval Photo Center, sent to the Truman Library by the National Archives. Original 4x5 negative.

Scene at Sadon Coal Mine in North Korea. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Mr. Hendricks, John Hurndall, Dick Johnston, in mine shaft at Sadong Coal Mine. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Unidentified man standing. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Sadong Coal Mine in North Korea. Mr. Dick Johnston, Mr. Hendricks, guide, Lt. Lisner, and Mr. John Hurndall. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).

Outside view of buildings and Japanese boys, age 14 to 16, working at the coal mine in Hsian, Manchuria. These boys had been sent from Japan during the war as "Youthful Pioneers of Manchuria." Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-47 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).