W. Averell Harriman While Touring in the Soviet Union During His 1959 Trip
Interior view with W. Averell Harriman seated on the left. Photo location may have been in Stalinabad, Tajikistan. 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). 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. Original 35mm negative.