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  • Tags: Immigration

Date: 1995 Aug 25
A letter from historian Alixa Naff of the National Museum of American History to Mary Mokarzel thanking her for the donation of family photos and documents.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_01_01.pdf

Date: 1995 Aug 25
A letter from Chief Archivist John Fleckner of the National Museum of American History to Helen Samhan thanking her for the donation of family photos and documents. In the last paragraph of the letter Fleckner mentions that a Deed of Gift is…
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_01_02.pdf

Date: 1995 July 17
A deed of gift to the National Museum of American History from Helen Samhan and Mary Mokarzel listing the specific journals, photographs, and other documents that they donated to the museum. The Deed was enclosed in letter 1-1-1-2.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_01_03.pdf

A list of materials published by the Immigration History Research Center of the University of Minnesota. Includes an order form on the last page.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_02_03.pdf

Date: circa 1994
An announcement sent out by the Immigration Research Center concerning the publication of the Annotated Index to the Syrian World, 1926-1932. The bottom of the page includes an order form.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_02_04.pdf

Date: 1992 Feb 18
A letter from Dr. Eugene Paul Nassar to Mary Mokarzel concerning receipt of two Al-Hoda books to help with the writing of the introduction for the "Annotated Index to the Syrian World." Included is the introduction itself for Mokarzel to review.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_02_05.pdf

Date: 1989 Sept 7
A letter from Mary Mokarzel to Eugene Paul Nassar concerning an upcoming project-- probably the publication of the Annotated Guide to the Syrian World.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_02_06.pdf

Date: 1994 June
A newsletter and other miscellaneous documents from the Immigration History Research Center.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_01_02_07.pdf

Date: 1996 Jan
The collection guide for historian Alixa Naff's Arab American Collection of articles, oral histories, interviews, and books.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_03_02_25.pdf

Date: 1959
A small card advertising the Lebanese Mahrajan of 1959. with notes on the back.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_07_01_01.pdf

Date: 1959 July 15
A letter from Eva Malik to Mary Mokarzel concerning the tea party given for her at Mary's New York apartment. Photos of the tea party are linked below.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_08_01_24.pdf

Date: undated
An photo of a museum exhibit image of Lebanese immigrants from Machghara, Lebanon. The caption on the back of the photo reads "most settled in Methuen, MA."
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_08_01_45.pdf

Date: 1991 Sept
A photo of names on the American Immigrant Wall of Honor at Ellis Island. Circled are the names of Salloum and Naoum Mokarzel.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_01_08_01_46.pdf

Date: undated
A draft of a narrative about the beginning of Salloum Mokarzel and his family's journey to America.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/kc0041/kc0041_02_02_02_02.pdf

Date: 1919 July 7
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_166.pdf

Date: 1913 Sept 12
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_162.pdf

Date: 1909 July 29
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_152.pdf

Date: 1907 May 14
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_141.pdf

Date: 1897 June 24
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_136.pdf

Date: 1905 June 27
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_126.pdf

Date: 1900 Sept 12
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_083.pdf

Date: 1900 Sept 11
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_082.pdf

Date: 1900 Sept 8
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_081.pdf

Date: 1900 Feb 8
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_062.pdf

Date: 1905 June 23
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_034.pdf

Date: 1897 June 24
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_033.pdf

Date: 1897 June 18
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_030.pdf

Date: 1897 June 15
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_029.pdf

Date: 1897 June 15
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https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/ns0001/ns0001_028.pdf

A Letter from Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota sent to Joseph El-Khouri regarding the status of the Jacob immigration case.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_03_005.pdf

A letter asking for donations to contribute money to building the American Museum of Immigration in the name of Lebanese communities.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_07_009.pdf

Date: 1967 April 3
A letter from Congressman Roy Taylor to Joseph El-Khouri promising to find information about the student visa procedure.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_07_003.pdf

Date: 1967 April 8
A letter from Congressman Roy Taylor to Joseph El-Khouri containing information about the student visa process from the U.S Department of Justice.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_07_004.pdf

A letter from Congressman Roy Taylor to Joseph El-Khouri providing more information about student visas from the State Department.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_07_005.pdf

Date: 1979 July 3
A letter from Nick Weaver (from the office of Senator Robert Morgan) to Joseph El-Khouri updating him on the status of his brothers' visas.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_11_016.pdf

An article published by the Asheville Citizen-Times concerning Joseph El-Khouri's immigration to the United States.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_12_038.pdf

A series of letters between Joseph El-Khouri and others written February 1953 concerning a bond which he executed in the case of Youssef El-Khouri.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_07_001.pdf

Letters from Nick Weaver (from the office of Senator Robert Morgan) to Joseph El-Khouri updating him on the status of his siblings' visas. The enclosures mentioned in the letters are absent.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_11_017.pdf

Date: 1978-1979
A collection of letters from the US Department of Justice and Senator Robert Morgan to Joseph El-Khouri regarding his petitions for relative immigrant visas to enter the United States.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_01_005.pdf

Date: 1979
Handwritten letter discussing personal affairs regarding US citizenship and violence during Lebanese Civil War.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_01_003.pdf

Date: 1979
Handwritten letter discussing documents needed to apply to green card and asking how to save on cost.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_01_002.pdf

Date: 1979
Handwritten letter discussing applying for possible US citizenship.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2016_01_001.pdf

Date: 1913
The History of the United States and the History of Syrian Emigration by Basil M. Kherbawi. Though split into two files here for readers' convenience, the two were published as one volume, in Arabic for immigrant readers, in 1913. Kherbawi was the…
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2015_04_021.pdf

Date: 1949
A photograph of Joseph El-Khouri leaning against a wall shortly after his immigration to the United St.ates.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0023/kc0023_2015_01_034.pdf

نسخة من رسالة امين الريحاني الى جرجي باز في 24 ايار 1909*. يبعث الريحاني فيها تحياته واطيب تمنياته الى باز وعائلته. كما انه يعبر عن حالة السوريين في المهجر، اميركا، ويصف "انقسامهم" ليس الحزبي (السياسي) فقط ولكن الديني ايضا - او كما دعاه الرجوع الى…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pgvzhm55vo3voxk/AR55_03_013.pdf

رسالة من ياسمين لوزي ياسمين الى امين الريحاني بتاريخ 14 شباط 1937. ياسمين تاجر سوري مهاجر مقيم في البرازيل وهو معجب بادب وكتابات الريحاني، الرسالة عبارة عن عبارات ثناء واعجاب بالريحاني، كما يقص ياسمين للريحاني هويته وبعض الاشخاص الذين يعرفهم - تحتوي…
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ipakzh2j43elydh/Rihani2018AR56_04_067.pdf

A letter from the National Federation of Syrian Lebanon Societies of the United States to the Honorable Cordell Hull, the United States Secretary of State, and addresses the impaired rights of American citizens of Syrian and Lebanese descent.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0060/kc0060_12_12_19371204_001.pdf

A letter from Kamal Antone to Ralph Karam discussing his faith and the Lebanese-Maronite community in Houston, Texas dated April 25, 1978.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0060/kc0060_18_13_KamalAntoneLetter19780425.pdf

Date: undated
A brief history of Syrian-Lebanese immigration to Texas.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0060/kc0060_19_1_HeritageSyrianLebaneseTexans.pdf

Date: undated
The Phonecian Club Heritage book, the Birmingham's Lebanese: "The Earth Turned to Gold," detailing the history of the Lebanese community in Birmingham, Alabama.
https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/KC0060/kc0060_13_22_PhonecianClubHeritageBook_001.pdf
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