Khruschev at Mesta:
In Good Humor

Photograph of Nikita Khruschev laughing and gesturing.


Caption: Khruschev talking with executives of the Mesta Machine-Building Plant in Pittsburgh [West Homestead].
Notes: Khruschev gesturing.
W. Ward Powell, Sr., Vice President at Mesta at time of visit, at far right; Mr. Powell, born 1890, was a 1913 graduate of Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University).
Henry Cabot Lodge, U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, to the immediate left of Mr. Powell.
Interpreter to the left of Lodge.
Photo courtesy of Mrs. Marsha P. Cable, granddaughter of W. Ward Powell, Sr.
Khruschev in a Buick.
Khruschev in the Mesta Plant.
Khruschev attentive.
Photographer:
Date: 24 September 1959.
Heading: Pittsburgh. Visitors. Khruschev, Nikita S.
#: P8993.
From the Collections of the Pennsylvania Department,
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

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