Observatories

Aerial view of an observatory on Okinawa, Japan.

Image believed to have been taken at the Observatory of Ulug Beg while W. Averell Harriman and his wife Marie were touring at Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Thayer states in his typewritten account of this site, "all that remains of a gigantic observatory is an enormous quadrant made of marble buried in the ground." 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).

William J. Dougherty, Director of Information, Department of the Interior (second from left), Governor Oren Long (center), and Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman (second from right) with unidentified men at the Haleakala Observatory in Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii.