Wadia Habib Immigration Record

Title

Wadia Habib Immigration Record

Description

An immigration record issued by the United States Department of Commerce and Labor, Immigration Service on January 6, 1913. It was was produced at Ellis Island, sent to Bernard M. Sheridan, Superintendent of Schools in Lawrence, MA, and signed by Acting Commissioner Byron Hall. It certifies that Wadia Habib arrived in the United States December 3, 1912. It provides her age, 16, occupation, servant, and destination, Lawrence, Massachusetts, to join her brother in law. It indicates that she traveled on the S.S. Kaiser Franz Josef of the Austro-American line (Manifest no. 40-5).

Publisher

Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies

Date

Contributor

Byron Hall

Rights

The donor retains full ownership of any copyright and rights currently controlled. Nonexclusive right to authorize uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. Usage of the materials for these purposes must be fully credited with the source. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials.

Format

Text/pdf

Language

Type

Text

Identifier

LPL_BRR_HabibWadia001_wm

Coverage

Ellis Island, New York

Files

https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/uploads/GR0007/LPL_BRR_HabibWadia001_wm.pdf

Citation

United States Department of Commerce and Labor and Immigration Service, “Wadia Habib Immigration Record,” Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies Archive, accessed December 7, 2024, https://lebanesestudies.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu/items/show/78881.