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Herbert E. Striner (1922-2015) was an economist and the former Dean of the Kogod School of Business at American University. His collection consists of over 9,000 negatives, prints, and slides depicting a wide variety of subjects in Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States from the 1940s to 1998. Striner took numerous photos in and around Washington, DC region depicting landmarks such as the National Cathedral and C&O Canal. Some of the earliest images in this collection document life on a troop ship. Striner also photographed the Chinese table-tennis delegation’s April 1972 visit to the United States. Approximately 5,000 black & white negatives, 5000 color slides, and 1,000 color negatives depicting a wide variety of subjects in the United States and abroad from the 1940s to the present.