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Color Photo of Touring Vehicles and Tourists in Mongolia

Exterior view of the Thayer Mongolian tour group which includes a tour bus and two jeeps. Diplomat and author Charles Thayer headed a party of fourteen Americans who traveled to Mongolia on a vacation in the summer of 1963, probably in June. They arrived at Ulan Bator and during the trip visited the Gobi Desert as well as the steppes of Mongolia and the site of the ancient capital of Karakorum. Thayer states the group travelled through the provinces more than 1000 kilometers by bus and jeep and another 600 kilometers by air.

Chapman Family Arrives in Hilo

Left to right: James Chapman; Emil J. Sady, Head of the Pacific branch of the Department of the Interior; Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman; Ann (Mrs. Oscar) Chapman; unidentified; and Oren E. Long, Territorial Governor of Hawaii, standing in front of an airplane after arriving in Hilo, Hawaii during the Chapmans visit to the Islands.