Palaces

From left to right, Arthur Z. Gardiner; Secretary of State for the Presidency Nguyen Dinh Thuan; Finance Minister Ha Van Vuong; unidentified man (mostly obscured); and Ngo Dinh Nhu smoking at a dinner party in the Presidential Palace in Vietnam. The dinner was held in honor of Leland Barrows, the departing Director of the United States Operations Mission.

Guests seated at the table for a dinner party at the Presidential Palace in Saigon, Vietnam, in honor of the departing United States Operations Mission Director Leland Barrows. Clockwise, starting at the foot of the table in the lower left corner: Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu; Leland Barrows; Emily F. (Mrs. Arthur) Gardiner; Mr. Chieu; Madame Vu Van Thai; Arthur Z. Gardiner, Mrs. Chieu; Ngo Dinh Nhu; Mrs. Elbridge Durbrow; and President Ngo Dinh Diem at the head of the table.

Norodom Palace in Saigon, Vietnam, as seen through the iron gates.

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman and an unidentified woman viewing exhibits inside the Palace of Pioneers in Sverdlovsk. Back of picture reads, "Gov. Harriman inspecting scientific models made by Young Pioneers (Soviet Boy Scouts) at Palace of Pioneers Sverdlovsk." Back also contains an inscription in Russian which was written by the deputy mayor Kurganov of Sverdlovsk. 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).

Interior view with W. Averell Harriman and an unidentified woman viewing exhibits inside the Palace of Pioneers in Sverdlovsk located in central Russia. They are inspecting scientific models made by Young Pioneers, Soviet style Boy Scouts. 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).

Outer walls of the Kyoto Imperial Palace in Kyoto, Japan.

Exterior view with W. Averell Harriman standing next to his wife Marie in a garden area. Believed to have been taken while at Yalta during their 1959 Russian trip with the palace/sanitarium in the background. 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). 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.

View of the Palace of Westminster (also referred to as the Houses of Parliament) and the Victoria Tower. The photograph was taken during a trip to the Far East by United States Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup and party.

Gardens at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Presidential palace in New Delhi, India. The photograph was taken during a trip to the Far East by the United States Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup and party.

Gardens at Rashtrapati Bhavan, the Presidential palace in New Delhi, India. The photograph was taken during a trip to the Far East by the United States Ambassador-at-Large Philip C. Jessup and party. All individuals are unidentified.