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Bert Fish at a Thanksgiving Day Service at the American Chruch in Cairo

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Bert Fish and other Americans attend the Thanksgiving Day Service at the American Church, Cairo. November 28, 1935.

Menu for a Banquet at the San Stefano Casino in Alexandria

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Menu for a banquet at the San Stefano Casino in Alexandria in honor of Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran. June 13, 1938.

Bert Fish at a Banquet

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Bert Fish attends a banquet, seated between two women.

Program for the Seventeenth Anniversary Dinner at the Cairo YMCA

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Program for the Seventeenth Anniversary Dinner at the Cairo YMCA, 1940. Bert Fish is listed as a guest of honor.

In English and Arabic.

Invitation to Dinner at Jedda Palace, Saudi Arabia

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Invitation to a dinner at Jedda Palace, Saudi Arabia. In Arabic.

Translation: The representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has the honor to invite His Excellency Mr. Bert Fish to partake of evening food at the Palace of the Foreign Office…

Scrapbook Photos from Montreux Conference

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Three photographs from the Montreux Conference from Bert Fish's scrapbook. April, 1937. Handwritten captions in English.

Mena House Menu

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Menu for a dinner at Mena House Hotel, hosted by Bert Fish. December 13, 1939.

The Mena House Hotel (now the Marriott Mena House Hotel) was a luxury resort overlooking the Giza Pyramid Complex. Personnel of the US Legation in Cairo resided at at…

Bert Fish Attends a Fencing Tournament

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In the company of King Farouk and other Egyptian dignitaries, Bert Fish attends a fencing tournament at Ezbekia Gardens. Left to right: Bert Fish, Nabil Abbas Halim, Prince Ismail Daoud, King Farouk, Ismail Sidky Pasha (Minister of Finance), Hilmy…