Mary Mahboub Immigration Records

Contract for transportation by sea by the Transatlantic General Company out of Marseille, France, created on May 30, 1912. Mary M. Mahboub Bistany (16) was traveling to Lawrence, Massachusetts, and was on board the liner named Florida [Floride]. The back of the document states that Mary was Syrian, worked as a housewife, was traveling for her first time to the United States, and could not read or write.

Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

Agence de L. Desbois Marseille

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Marseille, France

Contrat de Transport par mer

contract of transportation by sea