Arab American National Museum
1510 items
- Description:
- “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. and The interview was conducted on two days, 9/9/1999 and 2/2/2000.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-09-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Arab Americans and the Automobile - Voices from the Factory Collection
- Description:
- United Nations delegates and employees celebrating the 1952 Egyptian Revolution. Pictured are members from Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen and Sudan.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Lyla and William Saigh
- Date Issued:
- [1956 TO 1958]
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Rosemary Hakim Collection
- Description:
- Letter to Syrian-American Club from the New Syria National League
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Bank statement and returned checks for the Syrian-American Association of Boston from the Boylston National Bank
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Handwritten receipt for Blue Beards Palace
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Part of a series of interviews in the Arab American community completed by Dr. Alixa Naff in 1962., Original tape contains audio of joint interview with Essa M. and Sam S. of Manchester, New Hampshire. Interview is primarily in Arabic with some English., and Interview was originally completed on a reel-to-reel tape and was 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 American History and Related item: Essa and Mary M. interview notes: http://cdm16806.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16806coll10/id/106/rec/80
- Date Issued:
- 1962-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Oral Histories from the Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection
- Description:
- Lowery Band at Lowrey Clean-up Parade
- Notes:
- Source: A. Hildebrandt
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Many Stories, One City - Dearborn Community History
- Description:
- Immigrant narrative delivered by Samra
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Emile Abou Samra Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of Rosemary Hakim at The Plaza in New York City. Photograph is in a souvenir photograph folder.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Lyla and William Saigh
- Date Issued:
- 1956-01-17T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Rosemary Hakim Collection
- Description:
- Letters in Arabic
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection