Waterways

Postcard picturing the "Million Dollar Highway" through Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania addressed to former president Harry S. Truman from Walter von Broock, Sparta, New Jersey, 9/5/54. Part of a postcard booklet containing eighteen postcards. Copyright 1937.

Battleships at sea.

Sundown, Key West photograph taken in Key West, Florida by Harry James Mitchell. Original is oversize.

The USS Missouri (center) and the Yavuz (right) are photographed from a hill in Istanbul, Turkey as they transit the Bosporus Strait. A mosque is in the near foreground. Three unidentified visitors are almost hidden by the brush at the bottom of the picture.

View of a young boy seen floating on an unidentified stream/river believed to be located near the vacation home of Charles Thayer located in Bavaria. Original 35mm negative.

Unidentified outdoor scene with a waterway in view nestled in a mountain area. Unidentified buildings are also in view. Original negative in Library.

Exterior view with a typical Egyptian sail boat in view and taken along the Nile River. May have been taken near the Luxor area. 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.

Exterior view taken along the Nile River. May have been taken near the Luxor area. 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.

Exterior view taken along the Nile River. May have been taken near the city of Luxor. 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.

Exterior view with a typical Egyptian sail boat in view and taken along the Nile River. May have been taken near the Luxor area. 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.