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Raymond A. Hare Photographs

National Museum of Asian Art

Object Details

Creator
Hare, Raymond A.
Place
Afghanistan -- Pictorial works
Yemen -- Pictorial works
Iraq -- Pictorial works
Egypt -- Pictorial works
Greece -- Pictorial works
Iṣfahān (Iran)
Africa, North -- Pictorial works
Turkey -- Pictorial works
Syria -- Pictorial works
Topic
Islamic architecture
Creator
Hare, Raymond A.
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Raymond A. Hare Photographs
Summary
Ambassador Raymond A. Hare (1901-1994) created this collection to document the architecture, cities, and landscapes of the Middle East, including Afghanistan, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Palestine, Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.A photograph 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. Two portfolios of photographs presented to Ambassador Hare in 1965 by the senior staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to Turkey to commemorate his service as Ambassador to Turkey from 1961-1965. Included are 52 matted photographs, many signed by the photographer Ara Guler and dated and captioned, documenting the art and architecture of the Seljuks and the Armenians at the Armenian center of Ani. The slides, 1930s - 1960s, created by Hare document Islamic architecture and people and place views of North Africa, Turkey, Egypt, and Syria.
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
6 Linear feet (2300 photographs)
Date
1930s -1960s
Archival Repository
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Identifier
FSA.A1989.03
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Dye coupler transparencies
Photograph albums
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.
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
Dye coupler transparencies
Photograph albums
Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Related Materials
Raymond A. Hare Papers, GTM-GAMMS453, Georgetown University Library Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington D.C. https://findingaids.library.georgetown.edu/repositories/15/resources/10317.
Related link
Record ID
ebl-1585218765345-1585218765360-0
Metadata Usage
CC0
GUID
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/dc3b1c07d76-9971-4ae2-a2a4-f7eceb78bbf7

In the Collection

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  • Photo album of Cairo Minarets

  • Istanbul Basic Remainders, Sulaimaniyeh

  • Turkey Slide Lists

  • Istanbul Basic Remainders, Piyale Pasa Cami

  • Iran, Afghanistan Notebook

  • Syria Notebook: Damascus

  • Turkey Selected, Tray # 1

  • Turkey A-D Notebook: Amasya

  • Cairo Selected. Box 7

  • Cairo Notebook 2

  • Turkey Caravanserais Notebook

  • Lebanon. Byblos

  • Notes from Hare re the Collection

  • Morocco. Tangiers

  • Turkey Selected, Tray # 9

  • Syria. Damascus Museum

  • Istanbul Selected

  • Cairo Selected. Box 5

  • Turkey Basic, Tokat, Toprak Kale, Trabzon

  • Turkey A-D Notebook: Baba Eskri (Road to Edirne)

  • Yemen. Taiz

  • Turkey # 7; Central Asia

  • Istanbul Selected # 2

  • Turkey K-Z Notebook: Sultandaga (?), Tarakh, Taskopru, Tavas, Tercan, Termes

  • Cairo Notebook 2

  • Istanbul Basic Remainders, Misc. City Views

  • Turkey A-D Notebook: Birgi

  • Morocco. Marrakech

  • Spain. Cordova

  • Istanbul Selected # 2

  • Turkish Hans Selected # 2

  • Jerusalem

  • Turkey Basic, Sivas

  • Cairo Selected. Box 1

  • Yemen. Janad

  • Cairo Basic. House of Arfin Pasha, Modern Islamic House, Tomb Sulaiman Pasha, Ansari Mosque, Barrage Mosque, Maghrabi Mosque, Abdar Rahman Lutfi Mosque

  • Istanbul Selected

  • Turkey Basic, Amasya, Anamur, Anazarbe

  • Istanbul Basic Remainders, Feneri Isa, Azap Kap Cami, Azap Kapi Fountain

  • Turkey Selected, Tray # 4

  • Lebanon. Beit Eddin

  • Turkey Basic, Baskale, Batman, Beysehir, Bingol, Bitlis

  • Samarkand, Bukhara, Baku Notebook: Samarkand

  • Turkey A-D Notebook: Bitlis

  • Yemen. Hodeida

  • Turkey Basic, Ankara

  • Tunisia. Kairouan

  • Turkish Hans Basic Remainders, Havza, Horozlu, Ilgin, Incir, Karatay

  • Jordan. Amman, Pisgah

  • Turkey Basic, Egredir, Elbistan, Ephesus

  • Istanbul Selected

  • Turkey Slide Lists

  • Tunisia. Tunis, Monastir

  • Cairo Basic. Wekalat Qaytbay, Qubbat al-Fadawiya, Qagmas al-Ishaqi, Mosque of Abul Ilaz, Façade Sehil Mos. Badr ad-Din al-Wanal, Bab Qaytbay, Qubbat az Zomr, Mos. Azbak al-Yusufi, Mosq. Sultan Shah,

  • Turkey E-K Notebook: Elbistan, Erbil, Erkilet, Ermenek

  • Turkey Selected, Tray # 7

  • Turkish Hans Selected

  • Syria. Aleppo

  • Turkey A-D Notebook: Alanya

  • Turkey E-K Notebook: Edirne

  • Turkey Basic, Ararat, Aspendas

  • Lebanon. Anjar

  • Yemen. Aden to Taiz

  • Turkey Selected, Tray # 12

  • Turkey E-K Notebook: Kayseri,, Kumah

  • Turkey Basic, Payas, Pergama, Perge, Priene

  • Istanbul Basic Remainders, Bosphorus Views, Princes' Islands

  • Spain. Seville

  • Turkish Hans Selected

  • Ankara Selected

  • Turkey A-D Notebook: Antakya (Antioch) - Isparta - Atabeg

  • Turkey E-K Notebook: Izmir, Izmit

  • Spain. Seville

  • Information on Slides not taken by Hare

  • Turkey # 6

  • Turkey Selected, Tray # 6

  • Turkey Selected, Tray # 13

  • Cairo Basic. Mosq. Ahmad al-Mihmandar, Sebil Moh an-Nasr, Yimas Mosquem Maus. Tashtimur, Maus. Ahmad al-Qasid, Minaret of Qusun

  • Cairo Selected. Box 3

  • Istanbul Basic Remainders, Uskudar

  • Turkey Basic, Atabey, Aydin, Ayvanlik, Baba Eski

  • Turkey K-Z Notebook: Tire, Tokat, Trabzon, Turhai, Urfa, Urgup, Usak

  • Turkey Selected, Tray 10

  • Turkey Basic, Sinop, Sirt

  • Turkey E-K Notebook: Kalecik, Karaman

  • Turkey Basic, Sivas, Tarsus, Tatvan

  • Cairo Basic. Mosque of Amr ibn al-Asz, Nilometer at Roda, Ahmad ibn Tulun Mosque

  • Samarkand: Bib Khanum

  • Cairo Selected. Box 2

  • Turkey Selected, Tray # 2

  • Turkey Basic, Ani, Ankara

  • Cairo Notebook 1

  • Syria. Tartous, Amrit, Markah

  • Turkey A-D Notebook: Antalya

  • Turkish Hans Selected

  • Lebanon. Beirut

  • Turkish Hans Basic Remainders, Oksuz, Oresin, Payas, Saddedin, Sarapsa

  • Turkey A-D Notebook: Alana

  • Istanbul Basic Remainders, Valide Cami, Hekimaglu Ali Pasa Cami, Sultan Selim Cami, Eski Ali Pasa (Messih) Cami

  • Lebanon. Baalbek

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Photo album of Cairo Minarets
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