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W. Averell Harriman Touring During His 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

Interior view with diplomat and journalist W. Averell Harriman standing on the right. Believed to have been taken while the Harriman party was in Stalinabad, Tajikistan. May have been touring a museum. 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. Original 35mm negative.