Universities and colleges

Fred Wallace (top row, second from left) is seated on the steps of a building at the University of Missouri with other unidentified men and an unidentified woman. This is possibly a photo of Fred with members of his fraternity. From: Truman Home.

Fred Wallace (top left) is standing on the steps of a building at the University of Missouri in Columbia with a large group of unidentified men and women. This may be a photo of Fred and members of his fraternity. From: Truman Home.

A group photo of students and instructors at Stephens College, a women's college, in Columbia, Missouri. Among those pictures are Nancy Bentley (third row from the top, third from the right); Lutie Major (third row from the top, fourth from the right); Mary Pace (third row from the top, left); and Mary Martha Truman (fourth row from the top, second from left). Mary Martha Truman is Harry S. Truman's aunt.

Exterior view of what is believed to be the Al-Azhar Mosque which is associated with Al-Azhar University and located in 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.

Lafayette College conferred honorary degrees at commencement exercises. Recipients included: Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (third from left), Miss Dorothy Shaver (second from left), and Henry Luce (far right). Gentleman on left is unidentified.

Lafayette College conferred six honorary degrees at commencement exercises. Recipients were: Norman Peale (third from right), Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (third from left), Miss Dorothy Shaver (middle), Thomas R. Jones, Rev. W.H. Galbreath, and Henry Luce (far right).

Lafayette College conferred six honorary degrees at commencement exercises. Recipients were: Norman Peale (third from right), Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (third from left), Miss Dorothy Shaver (middle), Thomas R. Jones, Rev. W.H. Galbreath, and Henry Luce (far right).

Former President Harry S. Truman walking in the morning followed by the press. The Former President is in Buffalo, New York to receive an Honorary Doctor of Law at Canisius College.

Secretary of the Army Frank Pace (left) and Professor Frederick C. Lindvall (right) of California Technical University tour the campus in Pasadena, California.

Interior view with a group of men and students taken at Moscow University. W. Averell Harriman is standing, third from the right. Ivan Petrovsky, Rector of Moscow University, is second from the right. The students gathered around are Americans studying at Moscow University. Photograph taken during Harriman's 1959 trip to the Soviet Union. 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).