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Scene Taken During W. Averell Harriman's 1959 Trip to the Soviet Union

Exterior view with both adults and children standing by an arched wall in a park-like wooded area. Exact location unknown. 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. Has original negative.