“Arab Americans and the Automobile: Voices from the Factory” was a project conducted in 1999 by the Cultural Arts Department of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS). The main objective of “Voices from the Factory” was to document, through oral testimonies, the history of the Detroit area’s Arab immigrants in the automobile industry.
Date Issued:
1999-08-19T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Arab American National Museum
Collection:
Arab Americans and the Automobile - Voices from the Factory Collection
Part of a series of interviews in the Arab American community completed by Dr. Alixa Naff in 1962., Handwritten notes from interview with, and Handwritten notes were scanned and digitized in 2016 through a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and the Arab American National Museum.
Notes:
Source: Archives Center at the National Museum of Arab American History and Related item: No interview audio is labeled as Essa S.
Date Issued:
1962-01-01T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:
Arab American National Museum
Collection:
Oral Histories from the Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection
Postage stamp on envelope is dated 1912-08-23 and is addressed to Mr. Joseph Nasser, Brooklyn, New York. There is a combination of English and Arabic writing on the envelope. The letter is written in Arabic.
Letter from Dana W. Bigetow. There is a notation below D.W. Bigetow's letter from I.N. Terry dated 1901-07-12. Back of the letter had some Arabic writing and Mrs. Curran, 274 Genesee.