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Bert Fish and Pierre Crabitès

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Bert Fish visits with Pierre Crabitès, the American representative on the Mixed Courts of Egypt. June 28, 1939.

Bert Fish and Winthrop Rockefeller

Bert Fish and Winthrop Rockefeller
Bert Fish and Winthrop Rockefeller, gandson of John D. Rockefeller, leave the American Legation for the Montaza Palace in Alexandria, Egypt, where they are received in audience by King Farouk I. October 14, 1939.

Bert Fish Visits the Giza Pyramid Complex

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Bert Fish visits the Giza Pyramid Complex.

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…

Memorial Service for the Honorable Bert Fish

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Program for the memorial service of Bert Fish at St. Georges Church, Lisbon, Portugal. July 24, 1943.

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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.

Program for a Ballet at Palais d'Abdine

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Program for a ballet at Abdeen Palace (Palais d'Abdine). In French and Arabic. Abdeen Palace is an historic palace in Cairo and the headquarters of the Egyptian presidency.

Aerial Photographs of Portugal

Aerial View of Portugal
It is believed that Bert Fish took these photographs from a passenger airplane in 1936 or 1937. The backs of the photo bear descriptions that are typewritten or handwritten in Bert Fish's hand. Bert Fish was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister…

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…