Raymond A. Hare Photographs
name: label: Creator
content: Hare, Raymond A.
place: label: Place
content: Afghanistan -- Pictorial works
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content: Yemen -- Pictorial works
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content: Iraq -- Pictorial works
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content: Egypt -- Pictorial works
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content: Greece -- Pictorial works
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content: Iṣfahān (Iran)
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content: Africa, North -- Pictorial works
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content: Turkey -- Pictorial works
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content: Syria -- Pictorial works
topic: label: Topic
content: Islamic architecture
creator: label: Creator
content: Hare, Raymond A.
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content: Raymond A. Hare Photographs
abstract: label: Summary
content: 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.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Ambassador Raymond A. Hare was born in 1901 in Martinsburg, West Virginia and raised in Manchester, Iowa and Boothbay Harbor, Maine.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.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 6 Linear feet (2300 photographs)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1930s -1960s
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1989.03
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Dye coupler transparencies
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content: Photograph albums
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: 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.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Dye coupler transparencies
label: Genre/Form
content: Photograph albums
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: 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.