Monuments

View includes the Great Sphinx as well as some of the great pyramids of Giza located just south of Cairo, Egypt. Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and other countries in northern Africa in 1961. Trip journey and photos intended for possible magazine articles. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

View includes the great pyramids of Giza located just south of Cairo, Egypt. People in view include Cynthia Thayer on the right and perhaps Mrs. Frederick Reinhardt, wife of the U.S. ambassador to Egypt next to her. The young person is unidentified. Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and other countries in northern Africa in 1961. Trip journey and photos intended for possible magazine articles. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

Lieutenant General Louis W. Truman (second from left), with unidentified soldier, inspects the monument in front of Headquarters 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division which is one of the Divisions under VII Corps. The plaque reads" Memory of the Dogface Soldier."

Photograph of Captain John Smith Monument at Jamestown Historic Site in Jamestown, Virginia, taken by a member of First Lady Bess W. Truman's bridge club while on a visit to the site with the First Lady.

Photograph of the Pocahontas Monument at Jamestown Historic Site taken by an member of First Lady Bess W. Truman's bridge club while on a visit with the First Lady.

The Washington Monument stands in the background and the White House fountains are in the foreground of this picture taken from the White House by one of members of First Lady Bess W. Truman's bridge club while on a visit to the First Lady.

Fountains and the monument at the Pacific War Memorial located on the island of Corregidor, Philippines.

View of the rotunda from the base of the monument at the Pacific War Memorial located on the island of Corregidor, Philippines.

Monument at the Pacific War Memorial located on the island of Corregidor, Philippines.

Proposed monument design for the Pacific War Memorial located on the island of Corregidor, Philippines.