Arab American National Museum
1510 items
- Description:
- Image is from a school built by Joseph Howar in 1956 in the neighborhood of Tur in Jerusalem
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by the Howar Family
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Joseph Howar Collection
- Description:
- Part of a series of interviews in the Arab American community completed by Dr. Alixa Naff in 1962., Original tape contained only one interview, with Selma S. Interview is conducted almost entirely in Arabic., 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 Arab American History
- Date Issued:
- 1962-07-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Oral Histories from the Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection
- Description:
- Letter of recommendation from J. E. Freeman of East Mauch Chunk, PA.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Mike Monterastelli
- Date Issued:
- 1907-06-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Joseph Nusser Family Collection
- 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.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-06-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Arab Americans and the Automobile - Voices from the Factory Collection
- Description:
- Letter written in Arabic
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Document in Arabic
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Family reunion at Levagood Park.
- Notes:
- Source: P. Pompa
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Many Stories, One City - Dearborn Community History
- 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 Anisa Souhouba is Ali Souhouba’s niece. Parts of the interview are in Arabic. Janice Freij (JAN) was also present at the interview but was not a primary interviewer.
- Date Issued:
- 1999-10-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Arab Americans and the Automobile - Voices from the Factory Collection
- Description:
- Letter from May Assaff to Emily Hajar sent August 10, 1945.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Emily Hajar. and Source: Arab American National Museum.
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- May Assaff Collection
- Description:
- Timetable for Italian Airlines flights.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Lyla and William Saigh. and Source: Arab American National Museum
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Rosemary Hakim Collection
- Description:
- Photocopy of a letter to an unknown party from Julia
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1936-05-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Photocopy of "You be the Judge"
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Photocopy of correspondence about Syrian Ladies Aid Society Annual Dinner
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1934-12-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Photograph of 5 individuals in a formal portrait
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Letter of recommendation from Rev. Saul O. Curtice, pastor of First Methodist Episcopal Church.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Mike Monterastelli
- Date Issued:
- 1907-08-07T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Joseph Nusser Family Collection
- Description:
- Flight ticket from Detroit to New York, used by Rosemary on her trip from Detroit to Lebanon.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Lyla and William Saigh. and Source: Arab American National Museum
- Date Issued:
- 1955-06-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Rosemary Hakim Collection
- Description:
- Photocopy of correspondence between Julia and Margaret
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1935-12-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Handwritten record of dates and materials mailed
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Letter to Elias Sabbagh from T.D. Downing & Company regarding shipment of packages from Customs
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1923-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Promissory note made out to Sabbagh Bros. by E.Z. Eunice & Co.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Receipt in Arabic
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Mike Monterastelli
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Joseph Nusser Family Collection
- Description:
- Letter in Arabic with some English (the name Claudette and numbers) on the back.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Mike Monterastelli
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Joseph Nusser Family Collection
- Description:
- Receipt in Arabic
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Mike Monterastelli
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Joseph Nusser Family Collection
- Description:
- Letter from University of Toronto to Philip Shakir
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Circular Letter from N.M. Saleeby, Executive Secretary of 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:
- Family tree put together by Evelyn Shakir for Sabbagh family reunion in 1983. Also, article written by Shakir and oral history of Hannah Shakir
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Letter in Arabic
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Membership application form for the Syrian American Club of Boston
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Membership application form for the Syrian American Club of Boston
- 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., Handwritten notes from interview with Mr. and Mrs. Abraham G., 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: Mr. and Mrs. Abraham G. interview audio: http://cdm16806.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16806coll10/id/82/rec/71 and http://cdm16806.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16806coll10/id/84/rec/72
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Oral Histories from the Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection
- Description:
- Handwritten poem by Aliya Al-Ogdie Hassen
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Aliya Ogdie Hassen Collection
- Description:
- Scrapbook of articles titled "Lebanese G-Man Visits Sister, Finds U.S. Liberty Greatest" and "Lebanon Government Employee Visiting Relatives Here"
- Date Issued:
- 1950-05-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Emile Abou Samra Collection
- Description:
- Letter to Faris Malouf, President of the Syrian-American Club, from the Executive Department, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Letter to Mr. Rihbany from George E. Rihbany, Secretary of the Syrian-American Club of Boston
- 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:
- Letter in Arabic
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Letter written to Silas Nasr from Ibrahim Aterza. The envelope is addressed to Mr. Joseph Nasr, Brooklyn, New York. There is some Arabic writing on the envelope.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Mike Monterastelli
- Date Issued:
- 1905-11-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Joseph Nusser Family Collection
- Description:
- Receipt from W.J. Bahoot, Wholesale General Oriental Goods, New York, N.Y.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Mike Monterastelli
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Joseph Nusser Family Collection
- Description:
- Home-recorded audio on 7-inch paper-based orange Capitol-brand recording disc.
Side A contains a deep voice signing, possibly Ali Hassen.
Side B contains Ali Hassen signing and speaking in Arabic
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Aliya Ogdie Hassen Collection
- Description:
- Notice to the creditors of Kareem Shaban following adjucated bankruptcy
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Letter to the 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:
- Letter from Georgetown Uiniversity to Philip Shakir
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1967-06-02T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Book titled "Wrapping the Grapeleaves" edited by Gregory Orfalea
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Letter written in Arabic
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Letter to Abraham Nassif from Elias G. Swide, Sec.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Letter to Mr. Abraham S. Zaine, Secretary of the Syrian-American Club of Boston, from Thomas D. Apollonio
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Dr. George Ellenbogen
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Evelyn Shakir Collection
- Description:
- Membership application form for the Syrian American Club of Boston
- 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., Handwritten notes from interview with Simon A., 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: Simon A. interview audio: http://cdm16806.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p16806coll10/id/82/rec/71
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Oral Histories from the Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection
- Description:
- Receipt from T.S. Farhood & Co. New York, N.Y.
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Mike Monterastelli
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Joseph Nusser Family Collection
- Description:
- Letter recommendation from Irving E. White
- Notes:
- Source: Donated by Mike Monterastelli
- Date Issued:
- 1907-06-26T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Joseph Nusser Family Collection
- Description:
- Event advertisement in The Flint Journal "Lebanese to Speak Here: Syrian Dinner to be held Wednesday at International Institute"
- Date Issued:
- 1950-11-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Arab American National Museum
- Collection:
- Emile Abou Samra Collection