Ambassador Donates Islamic Architecture Slides to Freer

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Summary

Raymond Hare, former United States ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, and Turkey, donates 4,000 slides of Islamic architecture to the Freer Gallery of Art. Hare took the photographs in various regions, including southern Russia, Spain, and North Africa, but most of the photographs document sites in Cairo, Egypt, and in Turkey. The photographs join the Freer study collections.

Subject

  • Hare, Raymond A
  • Freer Gallery of Art

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

"Gift Enriches Freer Study Resources." The Smithsonian Torch (February 1979): 8.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1979

Topic

  • Photographers
  • Acquisitions
  • Donors
  • Architecture
  • Art museums
  • Photograph collections
  • Collectors and collecting
  • Ambassadors
  • Photographic artifacts
  • Museums
  • Photographic collections
  • Slides (Photography)
  • Spain
  • North Africa
  • Museums--Acquisitions

Place

  • Turkey
  • Egypt
  • North Africa
  • Washington (D.C.)
  • Russia

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