Raymond A. Hare Photographs

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Raymond A. Hare Photographs

ca. 1930-ca. 1960

https://sova.si.edu/record/FSA.A1989.03

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.

6 Linear feet (2300 photographs)

eng, Latn

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives

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Hare, Raymond Arthur, 1901-

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Raymond Arthur Hare was born April 3, 1901 in Martinsburg, West Virginia. He graduated from Grinnell College in 1924 and became an instructor at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey. In 1926 he worked for the American Chamber of Commerce for the Levant before returning to the United States to join the United States Foreign Service in 1927. He studied the Arabic language at the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes in Paris and went on to postings in Beirut, Lebanon and in Tehran, Iran. I...