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Raymond A. Hare Photographs Lara Amrod 2011 Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives Washington, D.C. 20013 [email protected] https://www.freersackler.si.edu/research/archives/ Table of Contents Collection Overview ........................................................................................................ 1 Administrative Information .............................................................................................. 1 Biographical / Historical.................................................................................................... 2 Arrangement..................................................................................................................... 2 Names and Subjects ...................................................................................................... 2 Container Listing ............................................................................................................. 3 Series 1: Notes, Turkey............................................................................................ 3 Series 2: Notes, Turkey, Syria, Yemen, Samarkand, Bukhara, Baku, Iran, Afghanistan, Spain, North Africa.............................................................................. 7 Series 3: Egypt Notes; Slide Lists........................................................................... 8 Series 4: Turkey # 1............................................................................................... 10 Series 5: Turkey # 2............................................................................................... 12 Series 6: Turkey # 3............................................................................................... 14 Series 7: Turkey # 4............................................................................................... 16 Series 8: Turkey # 5............................................................................................... 18 Series 9: Turkey # 6............................................................................................... 20 Series 10: Turkey # 7; Central Asia....................................................................... 22 Series 11: Cairo..................................................................................................... 24 Series 12: Cairo #2................................................................................................ 26 Series 13: Cairo # 3, Yemen # 1........................................................................... 28 Series 14: Yemen # 2, Jerusalem, Jordan, Syria #1.............................................. 30 Series 15: Syria #2, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon................................................................ 32 Series 16: Lebanon # 2, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Spain.................................... 34 Series 17: Spain #2, Misc. Slides Not Taken By Hare But Included In His Boxes...................................................................................................................... 36 Series FSA A1989.03 2: Photo album of Cairo Minarets, 1930s - 1960s............... 37 Raymond A. Hare Photographs FSA.A1989.03 Collection Overview Repository: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives Title: Raymond A. Hare Photographs Identifier: FSA.A1989.03 Date: 1930s -1960s Extent: 6 Linear feet (2300 photographs) Creator: Hare, Raymond A. Language: English 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. Administrative Information Preferred Citation Raymond A. Hare Photographs. Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Raymond A. Hare, 1989. Restrictions Collection is open for research. Conditions Governing Use 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. Page 1 of 37 Raymond A. Hare Photographs FSA.A1989.03 Conditions Governing Use 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. 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. 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. Names and Subject Terms This collection is indexed in the online catalog of the Smithsonian Institution under the following terms: Subjects: Islamic architecture Types of Materials: Dye coupler transparencies Photograph albums Geographic Names: Afghanistan -- Pictorial works Africa, North -- Pictorial works Egypt -- Pictorial works Greece -- Pictorial works Iraq -- Pictorial works Isf̣ ahā n (Iran) Syria -- Pictorial works Turkey -- Pictorial works Yemen -- Pictorial works Page 2 of 37 Series 1: Notes, Turkey Raymond A. Hare Photographs FSA.A1989.03 Container Listing Series 1: Notes, Turkey MBS copied many of Hare's slides for the Islamic Archives and this collection was erroneously housed with the Smith Collection. This collection represents Hare's original slides and the notes he kept about the sites and his visits. Hare donated it to the Freer subsequent to the MBS donation and it is not included in the 1983 inventory of the Smith Islamic Archives. The Notes were contained in loose leaf notebooks or in envelopes. The original order of the notes and miscellaneous loose items is retained. The notes include information from published sources, maps, newspaper clippings, commercial photographs and dated comments about visits made by Hare and photographs he took. Box 178, Folder 1 Notes from Hare re the Collection Box 178, Folder 2 Turkey A-D Notebook: Adana Box 178, Folder 3 Turkey A-D Notebook: Adana to Antakya Box 178, Folder 4 Turkey A-D Notebook: Adana to Ceyhan to Kadesh to Karatepe to Kadesh to Kozan to Adana Box 178, Folder 5 Turkey A-D Notebook: Afyon Box 178, Folder 6 Turkey A-D Notebook: Akthamar (Aghtamar) Box 178, Folder 7 Turkey A-D Notebook: Ahlat Box 178, Folder 8 Turkey A-D Notebook: Aksaray Box 178, Folder 9 Turkey A-D Notebook: Aksehir Box 178, Folder 10 Turkey A-D Notebook: Alanya Box 178, Folder 11 Turkey A-D Notebook: Alana Box 178, Folder 12 Turkey A-D Notebook: Aba, Yukan Aba Koyu (Antalya-Alanya) - Gulfesen, Gulfese Box 178, Folder 13 Turkey A-D Notebook: Amasya Box 178, Folder 14 Turkey A-D Notebook: Antakya (Antioch) - Isparta - Atabeg Box 178, Folder 15 Turkey A-D Notebook: Antalya Page 3 of 37 Series 1: Notes, Turkey Raymond A. Hare Photographs FSA.A1989.03 Box 178, Folder 16 Turkey A-D Notebook: Ayasluk (Ephesus) Box 178, Folder 17 Turkey A-D Notebook: Aydin Box 178, Folder 18 Turkey A-D Notebook: Baba Eskri (Road to Edirne) Box 178, Folder 19 Turkey A-D Notebook: Balat, Balihisar, Bergama Box 178, Folder 20 Turkey A-D Notebook: Beysehir Box 178, Folder 21 Turkey A-D Notebook: Birgi Box 178, Folder 22 Turkey A-D Notebook: Bitlis Box 178, Folder 23 Turkey A-D Notebook: Bodrum, Bolu, Bor, Beyalik Koy, Bozoyok(?), Burdur Box 178, Folder 24 Turkey A-D Notebook: Bursa Box 178, Folder 25 Turkey A-D: Cankiri, Cay, Cennet-Cehennem Box 178, Folder 26 Turkey A-D Notebook: Denizli, Develi Box 178, Folder 27 Turkey A-D Notebook: Divirigi Box 178, Folder 28 Turkey A-D Notebook: Diyarbekir Box 178, Folder 29 Turkey A-D Notebook: Dunyasir, Duragan Box 178, Folder 30 Turkey E-K Notebook: Edirne Box 178, Folder 31 Trukey E-K Notebook: Egirdir (Egridir) Box 178, Folder 32 Turkey E-K Notebook: Elbistan, Erbil, Erkilet, Ermenek Box 178, Folder 33 Turkey E-K Notebook: Erzerum Box 178, Folder 34 Turkey E-K Notebook: