Photo album of Cairo Minarets
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A1989.03 2
- Creator
- Hare, Raymond A.
- Collection Creator
- Hare, Raymond A.
- Place
- Africa, North -- Pictorial works
- Cairo (Egypt)
- Topic
- Islamic architecture
- Creator
- Hare, Raymond A.
- See more items in
- Raymond A. Hare Photographs
- Biographical / Historical
- Ambassador Raymond A. Hare was born in 1901 in Martinsburg, West Virginia and raised in Manchester, Iowa and Boothbay Harbor, Maine. He received a B.A. from Grinnell College in 1924 and joined the Foreign Service in 1927. He retired in 1966 and throughout his career Hare served as U.S. ambassador to Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the United Arab Republic. He also served as the director general of the U.S. Foreign Service (1956-1958) and was affiliated with the Middle East Institute in Washington, D.C. as its president (1966-1969), national chairman (1969-1976), and chairman emeritus starting in 1976. As an amateur photographer, Hare documented Islamic architecture during his extensive travels in the Middle East, especially in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. Ambassador Raymond A. Hare died of pneumonia on February 9, 1994.
- Extent
- 2,300 Photographs
- Date
- 1930s - 1960s
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A1989.03, Series FSA A1989.03 2
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Photograph albums
- Collection Citation
- Raymond A. Hare Photographs, FSA.A1989.03. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Raymond A. Hare, 1989.
- Arrangement
- Slides are arranged by county and city or country and subject, then by Hare's use of the materials. The prints are mounted in the albums in original order.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.
- Permission to reproduce and publish an item from the Archives is coordinated through the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery's Rights and Reproductions department. Please contact the Archives in order to initiate this process.
- Genre/Form
- Photograph albums
- Scope and Contents
- A photographic album of 90 silver-gelatin photographs depicts minarets in Cairo, Egypt, with annotations in Arabic and English describing the date and title of each minaret.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585218765345-1585218765430-4
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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