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Box 17

 Container

Contains 74 Results:

European trip and family, 1963

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 51
Scope and Contents

15 slides containing photographs of L. Mendel Rivers taken during a European trip including scenes of Notre-Dame in Paris, France, and the Brandenburg Gates in Berlin, Germany. Also included are family photographs of Margaret Middleton Rivers, Peggy Rivers (Margaret Rivers Eastman), Marion Rivers, and L. Mendel Rivers, Jr.

Dates: 1963

Wappoo Heights-exterior windows, 1963

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 52
Scope and Contents

13 slides containing photographs of the Rivers' family home at Wappoo Heights. Primarily photographs of the exterior windows.

Dates: 1963

Carl Vinson, 1964

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 53
Scope and Contents

17 slides containing photographs of Representative Carl Vinson and L. Mendel Rivers attending a ceremony.

Dates: 1964

Astronaut-speaker's office, 1964

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 54
Scope and Contents

13 slides containing photographs of Representative Carl Vinson, L. Mendel Rivers, and an unidentified astronaut in Vinson's office. Also included are four loose photographs of L. Mendel Rivers and Carl Vinson.

Dates: 1964

Graduation, 1965

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 55
Scope and Contents

19 slides containing photographs of Marion Rivers' graduation from college and L. Mendel Rivers, Jr.'s graduation from High School. Also included are a few slides of Margaret Rivers Eastman (Peggy Rivers), her husband Robert, and their son.

Dates: 1965

Korea and Taipei, 1965

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 56
Scope and Contents

45 slides containing photographs of a military parade and air show in Seoul, South Korea, and L. Mendel Rivers standing by Chiang-Kai-Shek in Taipei, Taiwan.

Dates: 1965

Thailand, 1965

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 57
Scope and Contents

17 slides containing photographs of L. Mendel Rivers visiting a United States Air Base in Thailand.

Dates: 1965

Vietnam, 1965

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 58
Scope and Contents

20 slides containing photographs of L. Mendel Rivers visiting a United States Air Cavalry Base in Vietnam. Also pictured is General William Westmoreland.

Dates: 1965

Military exercises, 1966

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 59
Scope and Contents

Seven slides containing photographs of a military exercise (possibly near Charleston) including L. Mendel Rivers, Jr. standing on a submarine and parachutes dropping from military aircraft.

Dates: 1966

Alaska, 1967

 File — Box: 17, Folder: 60
Scope and Contents

18 slides containing photographs of natural scenes, military aircraft, and L. Mendel Rivers and his wife Margaret Middleton Rivers probably taken in Alaska during a stopover flight, L. Mendel Rivers took, on his way home from a trip to Asia. Also included are two strips of film.

Dates: 1967