Thayer, Cynthia Dunn Cochrane, 1922-1987

View of four individuals squatted near a recently shot cape buffalo while on safari in Sudan. Charles Thayer identifies as "the buffalo with the two trackers, my wife and myself." Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and Sudan in 1961. Photos of the safari in Sudan intended for a possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.

Exterior view of a woman, possibly Cynthia Thayer, sitting beside a recently shot deer. Two dogs are also in view. Location not given, but probably taken at the Thayer vacation home in Bavaria, Germany. There is an original 35mm negative.

Exterior, full body view of Cynthia Thayer, wife of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer, standing between an unidentified older man on the left and a boy on her right who may be her son Jimmy. Appears to have been taken on the lawn at the Thayer's vacation home in Bavaria. Original negative is in Truman Library collection.

Interior view, unidentified ballroom location with three couples in formal attire. Diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer is second from the left and his wife Cynthia Thayer is second from the right. Others or event not identified, perhaps taken in Germany.

Interior view of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer and his wife Cynthia, seen second and third from the left. They are standing by bookshelves, perhaps a library. Others not identified or event, location probably Germany (Regensburg) in the early to mid-1950s.

Outside view of Cynthia Thayer, wife of diplomat Charles W. Thayer, resting on a balcony at their summer home called Laubau located in Bavaria.

Exterior, full view of Cynthia Thayer, wife of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer, dressed in winter attire standing holding her dog beside a tall snow drift. Location not given but may have been taken near the George and Gertrude Thayer home in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

Exterior, full view of Cynthia Thayer, wife of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer, standing dressed in winter attire holding her dog beside a tall snow drift. Location not given but may have been taken near the George and Gertrude Thayer home in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

Exterior, full view of Cynthia Thayer, wife of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer, dressed in winter attire standing beside a tall snow drift with her dog. Location not given but may have been taken near the George and Gertrude Thayer home in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

Exterior view of Cynthia Thayer, wife of diplomat and author Charles W. Thayer, posed kneeling with her gun beside some type of recently shot wildlife. Apparently taken at the Thayer's vacation home located in Bavaria. Original 35mm negative.