An application for employment certificate for Nassef Haddad created on November 4, 1924. It states that his employer is A. Haddad--likely his father Abraham. It lists his residence as 369 Chestnut and place of birth as Berlin, New Hampshire, and age…
A letter, witten by A. R. Saunders, Insurance Agent for French Line and addressed by Bernard M. Sheridan, Superintendant of schools in Lawrence, MA, on February 6, 1914. It certifies that Martha Hajjar purchased a ticket for the French Line on June…
A letter, written by A. R. Saunders, Insurance Agent for French Line, addressed by Bernard M. Sheridan, Superintendant of schools in Lawrence, MA, on August 7, 1913. It certifies that Toufick H. Hajjar purchased a ticket for Austro-American Line on…
A letter from A.F. Kindersley to the Commissioner of Police in Bombay (now Mumbai), dated August 22, 1922. The letter addresses Ameen F. Rihani's proposed travel plans to visit Bahrain and Nejd.
Volume 1, No. 1 of كوكب أمريكا, Kawkab Amirka. English articles include: an introduction to the publication's goals; an article praising Ottoman Empire Sultan Abdul-Hamid Khan; a description of violence and prejudice against immigrants in the lower…
Articles in English in this issue include the first in a series on Syrian etiquette; an account of the reception given to celebrate Kawkab Amirka's first issue; travel accounts describing the fakirs…
Volume 1, No. 3 of كوكب أمريكا, Kawkab Amirka. Articles in English include a brief profile of Syrians in America; an encounter with Sidi Moulayel-Hassan, sultan of Morocco; a travelogue related by a Syrian travelling by railroad across the American…
Volume 1, No. 4 of كوكب أمريكا, Kawkab Amirka. English articles include: a brief history of the caliphate; a travelogue about visiting with the Rawahla tribe of Bedouins; and an overview of the culture of Islam. Arabic pieces include articles on: …
Volume 1, No. 5 of كوكب أمريكا, Kawkab Amirka. Articles in English include: the conclusion of a piece on cultural progress in Islam; reporting on an anti-Semitic "riot," or pogrom, in the Polish city of Lodz; a profile of a Bedouin tribe; reports of…
Volume 1, No. 7 of كوكب أمريكا, Kawkab Amirka. Articles in English in this edition include: an account of the first recorded complete Buddhist funeral in the United States; a continuation of the travelogue profile of a Bedouin tribe; a continuation…
Volume 1, No. 8 of كوكب أمريكا, Kawkab Amirka. Articles in English include: a profile of a Korean magazine, the "Korean Repository;" a continuation of a travelogue describing a visit to a Bedouin tribe; a description of a Persian harem, with…
Volume 1, No. 9 of كوكب أمريكا, Kawkab Amirka. Articles in English include: an account of Cardinal Lavigerie's lifelong efforts to document and combat slavery in Africa and a description of the various pirates working from and around the…
Volume 1, No. 10 of كوكب أمريكا, Kawkab Amirka. Articles in English include: a report of the death of Emin Pacha, aka Isaak Eduoard Schnitzer, a German-Jewish naturalist, explorer, and governor of Equatoria; a description of the replacement of…
Kawkab Amirka, كوكب أمريكا, Vol. 2, no. 56 was the first issue to do away with the page of English articles; this volume of the newspaper is almost exclusively in Arabic.
The issue contains a full page of illustrations depicting the World's…
