A Physician's Certificate signed by M. Schwartz, M.D., certifying that Toofic Abdo's age was at least 16. This record lists Abdo's residence at 393 Elm St., Lawrence, Massachusetts, and place of birth as Syria.
An immigration record created at Ellis Island, New York, on August 16, 1913. The record details the admission of Sada Abdo into the United States.This record provides information about Sada Abdo, including her age, destination, date of arrival,…
Handwritten extract from a baptism register. It was copied on July 20, 1911, by the church Notre Dame du Secours [Our Lady of Help] in Sakiet-El-Misk, Lebanon. Records the baptism of Kalil Constantin Aboud on May 5, 1895, the son of Constantin Aboud…
Passport for Rashid Abdelnour, valid for one year. The name on the passport is Rashid Elias Mawad. Includes travel and arrival dates, age, father's name, destination, and a brief physical description. He came from Lebanon and was without other…
An immigration record created at Ellis Island, New York, on January 7, 1914. The record details the admission of Rashid Abdelnour into the United States. This record provides information about Rashid Abdelnour, including his age, destination, and…
A handwritten letter in Arabic, written by Father Yousef Mansour El-Khoury on November 18, 1912. The letter testifies to the birth of Saoud Abdallah. This record provides information about Saoud Abdallah, including place and date of birth.
An immigration record copied from information created at Ellis Island, New York. It was created on July 22, 1912, and signed by Acting Commissioner Byron Hall. The record details the admission of Mershed N. Abdalla into the United States. This record…
Handwritten letter in Arabic from Khouri Minas Kfouri, composed on August 9, 1911. The letter confirms the age of Yousuf Abdalla based on his birthdate recorded in the baptism book.
A handwritten letter in Arabic composed by Khouri Yousuf Sharabiah on August 7, 1920. The letter confirms the baptism of Mansour Hanna Sulaiman on November 13, 1901, and that of his brother, Abdallah Hanna Sulaiman, on July 6, 1903, in Saydet El…
A handwritten letter in Arabic by Father Khouri Ibraheem Najah, composed on March 20, 1910. It confirms the birth of George Abdalla in Mt. Lebanon on May 12, 1894, based on the information recorded in the baptisim book in the Roman Catholic Church in…
A letter sent for George Abdalla's employment written by Abraham al Hage on March 20, 1910. The letter states that al Hage consulted a copy of Abdalla's baptismal record in the church that Abdalla was baptized in. Abdalla was baptized on May 12th,…
An immigration record from Marseille, France, created on September 16, 1911. The record lists Alice Abdalla as immigrating at age 17 in 1911. On the back of the record is information including her profession, the fact that she could read, that it was…
A birth record created on August 16, 1912 by the City Clerk's Office of Lawrence, Massachusetts. The record provides information about Alice Abbas, including her date and place of birth. It also includes information about her parents, including her…
A school record for Alice Abbas created on August 17, 1921. The record indicates that Alice was born on November 25, 1906. The record was issued by the Massachusetts Department of Labor and Industries and was filled out by one of the Sisters of Notre…
A photograph of Victor Kuri (senior) at an exhibit in the Kusak Art Gallery in Zona Rosa, Mexico City. He stands in front of an art piece with an unknown man standing on the other side.
Victor Kuri (senior), Maximo Kuri's father, playing basketball at Valvoline's No. 7. Victor became a semi-professional basketball player, joining the Mexico City YMCA at an early age, after his parents, Hanna and Dalel Khoury, separated in 1945.
Maximo Kuri's maternal grandparents, Margarita and Francisco, walking in walking on San Juan de Letran Street in the 1950s. Image captured by a street photographer.
Photograph of Guillermina Kuri, her daughter Mayela, and her husband Victor Kuri drinking jellab at a Beirut terrace during their trip to Lebanon in 2003.
Photograph of Victor and Guillermina, Maximo Kuri's parents, at their wedding on December 10, 1960. They are both looking at the camera, smiling, as they embrace each other.
Photograph of part of the inside of Mexico Arte with Guillermina Kuri, Maximo Kuri's mother, behind the counter. Mexico Arte was a retail business that the Kuri family started in Vancouver, Canada where they imported Mexican pinewood furniture, blown…
A photograph of the interior of Monte Cristo, a bakery/bistro operation started by the Kuri family in Canada that had three locations. It originally opened on Robson Street, in downtown Vancouver and was eventually sold by the Kuri family to a Kenyan…
An exterior shot of Monte Cristo, a bakery/bistro operation started by the Kuri family in Canada that had three locations. It originally opened on Robson Street, in downtown Vancouver and was eventually sold by the Kuri family to a Kenyan immigrant…
A family photograph of the Khourys in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1961. Sometime in the 1920s, Bechara and Farieda Khoury (Maximo Kuri's paternal great great grandparents) moved the Khourys family moved to Johannesburg, South Africa as Lebanon's…
Photograph of Dalel Khoury (resting her face on her hand) with my Victor Kuri as a baby and her other son, Jose, next to Victor, at a picnic with the Barquet family in Rio Frio, Mexico, c.1935. Ventura Barquet, future author of a popular cookbook, is…
A photograph of a large pool and a basketball court at the Kuri home in El Pedregal de San Angel. Children are playing on the basketball court and a small jungle gym placed next to the basketball court. The Kuri family moved into a mansion on Calle…
Photograph taken of the Maximo and his siblings (in no particular order, Mayela, Guillermo, and Victor) and one unknown girl, posing in front of their pool. This photograph was likely taken in the 1970s
An article written by Maximo Kuri about the city of Beirut and how it had recovered from the Lebanese Civil War. The piece was written at Wimpy's Cafeteria on Hamra Street, Beirut, on October 31, 2003. It was published by Reforma, a Mexican national…
Photograph of Bechara Khoury posed next to a flower arrangement with Farieda Khoury on the other side. Taken in late 1920s, shortly before they moved the family to South Africa.
Photograph of Alberto Kuri, Maximo's uncle, on his way to work at a night club in Tucson, Arizona where he was a Master of Ceremonies in the sixties. He was the third of Hanna and Dalel Khoury's four children.
Brochure pamphlet created by the National Committee of Gibran in 1973 on Kahlil Gibran's hometown, Bcharre. This was included with other reproductions of Gibran's work and photographs of Gibran's living spaces in the folder titled "The World of…
Reproduction of drawings by Kahlil Gibran featuring various nude figures. This was included with the other reproductions in the folder titled "The World of Kahlil Gibran" created by the National Committee of Gibran.
Reproduction of various drawings of faces done by Kahlil Gibran. This was included with the other reproductions in the folder titled "The World of Kahlil Gibran" created by the National Committee of Gibran.
Letter from the National Committee of Gibran that gives context to the organization and the work, "The World of Kahlil Gibran" (a folder filled with reproductions of Gibran's art, personal writings, and photographs of his space and hometown), in…
