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  • Collection: Mansour Family

Date: Unknown
A hand-drawn family tree depicting the Rabil family tree and dating back to 1600. Other branches depict the Sarkis, Farah, and Nassif branches of the tree.
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A snapshot of Nell Heeden Mansour standing in front of a dinner table full of traditional Lebanese and American food.
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A photograph of a roadway depicting damage done by bombs during the Civil War in Lebanon.
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A photograph of a bomb detonating in Lebanon during the Civil War, taken from a distance.
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A photograph of a bomb detonating in Lebanon during the Civil War, taken from a distance.
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A photograph of Virginia Rabil Mansour standing in front of a painted portrait of her husband, Ernest Norman Mansour, Sr, who passed away in 1983. Also visible are a number of family photographs on the same wall.
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A photograph of young Virginia Dell Rabil, later Virginia Mansour, sitting on a curb; the caption provided identifies this as a driveway, but does not specify where it was located. Though undated, the photograph was likely taken circa 1945-1950, when…
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A close-up photograph of a photograph of Virginia Rabil, later Virginia Mansour. The photograph that this image was taken from is linked below.
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A photograph of Virginia Mansour sitting in a swamp.
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A blurred photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt's correspondence to M. Mansour in their frame. Scans of both letters are linked below.
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Date: 1928
The calling card given to M. Mansour by FDR's campaign.
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A letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt to M. Mansour apologizing for his absence. His previous letter requesting a meeting is linked below.
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A campaign letter from to Franklin D. Roosevelt to M. Mansour requesting a meeting. The calling card mentioned in the letter is linked below.
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A photograph of a painted portrait of an unidentified male member of the Mansour family.
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A photograph of a painted portrait Virginia Rabil Mansour's husband, Ernest.
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A photograph of a painted portrait of an unidentified male member of the Mansour family.
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A photograph of a painted portrait of an unidentified male member of the Mansour family.
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A photograph of an unidentified young man from either the Mansour or Hedeen families, leaning against a pole on a city street in front of storefronts.
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A photograph of a young man leaning against a pole, dressed in a suit with a white jacket, tie, and bundle of keys at his waist. In the background is the commercial city street of an unidentified city; a shop advertising stetson hats is visible.
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A hand-tinted photograph of an unidentified young man.
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Portrait of Chorbishop Peter Rabil, a priest of the Maronite Church. Peter Rabil was born July 10, 1884 in Hammana, Lebanon to Daher and Mariam Rabil. He emigrated in 1913 and settled in Goldsboro, NC where he served as priest to the local community…
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A framed portrait photograph of an unidentified man in a suit, posed next to furniture, taken at an unknown date.
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Date: 1920s
A studio portrait of an unidentified young woman taken in Beirut, likely in the 1920s. The photograph is mounted on a cardboard mat; the woman is standing on a patterned rug in front of a chair in front of a painted backdrop of trees.
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Date: 1920s
An unidentified young man from the Mansour family photo album. The young man is playing tennis, standing in front of a net and swinging a racket behind his shoulder. The photograph is captioned "La-the-fy."
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Date: 1920s
A photograph of an unidentified young man from the Mansour family photo album laying on the grass with trees in the background. The picture is captioned: "'La' - 'the' - 'fy.'"

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