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  • Collection: Bert Fish Papers and Albums

Album with Photographs of Daily Life in Cairo

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This album of black and white photographs was a gift to Bert Fish from fellow United States diplomat and amateur photographer Burton Yost Berry. It is believed that Berry worked for the American Legation at Cairo during the summer of 1938, as…

Album with Photographs of the Funeral Procession of King Fuad I of Egypt

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Album, believed to have been compiled by Bert Fish, of press photographs of King Fuad's funeral procession in Cairo, Egypt. As a member of the diplomatic corps, he would have been in attendance.

American College for Girls Commencement Programme

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Program for the Twenty-Seventh Annual Commencement Exercises of the American College for Girls. May 19, 1939. Bert Fish attended the ceremony and handed out diplomas.

The program is glued to one of Bert Fish's scrapbooks. In English and Arabic.

American University at Cairo Commencement Program

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Program of the 1938 Commencement of the American University of Cairo, at which Bert Fish was the guest of honor.

American University at Cairo Commencement Program

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Program for the Seventeenth Annual Commencement Exercises of the American University at Cairo. May 26, 1939. In English and Arabic.

The program is pasted to a scrapbook.

Bert Fish at a Banquet

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Bert Fish attends a banquet, seated between two women.

Bert Fish with Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud

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Bert Fish meetis with the King of Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud.

Bert Fish with Prince Faisel of Saudi Arabia

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Bert Fish in audience with Faisel bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Prince of Saudi Arabia. February, 1940.

Dinner Menu

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Dinner Menu from at event at the Ras El Tin Palace (Palais Ras El-Tine) on June 12, 1938. The Ras El Tin Palace, in Alexandria, Egypt, serves as the summer headquarters of the Egyptian president. Constructed between 1834 and 1848, it is one of the…

Invitation to a Banquet Honoring the Iranian Prime Minister Reza Shah Pahkavi

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Invitation, addressed to Bert Fish, honoring the Iranian Prime Minister Reza Shah Pahkavi at Abdine Palace. March 4, 1939.

Invitation is glued to one of Bert Fish's scrapbooks. In French.