Faris and Yamna Naff Arab American Collection
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Naff, Alixa, 1919-2013
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1875 - 2004
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120 Cubic feet (295 boxes )
2,000 Photographs
450 cassette tapes
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0078
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
The collection is the result of research conducted by Dr. Alixa Naff relating to the study of the early Arab immigrant experience in the United States from about 1880-World War II. The study began with oral history interviews in 1962 and became a major project in 1980 with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It documents the assimilation of Arabic speaking immigrants in the United States.
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Naff, Alixa, 1919-2013
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circa 1957-1972
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28 color prints
13 sound tapes (open reel)
1,500 Slides (circa 1500 black & white and color slides)
300 Prints (circa, silver gelatin)
1 Boxe (35 mm acetate negatives)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.2011-02
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs taken by Alixa Naff between 1957 and the early 1970s on trips to England, Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East, and open reel audio tapes of interviews regarding Syrian-Lebanese folklore that Naff conducted in 1965 in the Lebanese Village of Rashaya al-Wadi. Comprising this collection are images of cities, structures, art, pe...
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Zembo Shrine (Location of Meeting--Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; )
- Dates:
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1949 - 1949
- Size:
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0.15 Cubic feet
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1399
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
An album of photographs documenting the activities of the members of the Zembo Shrine of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The album Includes images of members involved in charitable activities for children from Shriners' Hospitals; of members engaged in ritual activities or participating in public events such as parades; and of members in regalia.
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Prussin, Labelle
- Dates:
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1979
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2 Sheets (59 x 40 centimeters and 33 x 22 centimeters, colored inks)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS2008-18
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Two amulets (called "hatumere" by the Fulbe and "sebe" by the Mande) collected by Labelle Prussin in Bafodea, Sierra Leone in 1979. One is a copy that Labelle Prussin had made of an amulet inscribed in Arabic. The original amulet was later collected by Simon Ottenberg and is now in the collections of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art...
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Stern, Louis E., 1886-1962
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1897-1978
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0.8 Linear feet ((partially microfilmed on 2 reels))
- Collection ID:
- AAA.sterloui
- Repository:
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Archives of American Art
Correspondence, writings, art work, photographs and printed material relating to Stern's art collection and his relationships with Marc Chagall and family, and with Reuvin and Esther Rubin.
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Brashares, Charles W., 1891-1982
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1923-1924, 1945-1954
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281 color slides
21 lantern slides
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.99-1
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs made by Charles W. Brashares in India (1948-1949), Portugal, Africa (including Liberia, Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa, 1945), Japan (1948) Bolivia (1951), and Peru (1951) documenting the people, ceremonies, architecture, and scenery of each location. The collection also includes lantern slides depicting Palestinian people, architectu...
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of Education
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1954, 1972, 1990-1993, and undated
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7.52 cu. ft. (6 record storage boxes) (4 film boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 02-063
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records documenting films and videos produced by the Office of Education. The most documented film in this accession is "The Art of the Hyo-gushi," a 45 minute film following the restoration of three Japanese paintings by Takahi Sugiura and his assistants, Shigero Mikkachi and Makoto Souta. Other productions document...
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Palestine Exploration Fund
- Dates:
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circa 1890-1895
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56 mounted prints (albumen)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.158
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs collected by the Palestine Exploration Fund depicting sites and peoples in Syria, Israel, and Palestine that relate to Biblical events. Sites include the Great Mosque in Damascus, Nazareth, a Samaritan camp, remains of synagogues, Mount Gerizim, and Jerusalem. The photographs, which were either made or funded by members of the Palesti...
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McKim, Leonora Jackson, 1880-1969
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undated
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24 Prints (albumen)
5 Prints (probably chromolithograph)
4 Prints (collotype)
2 Prints (silver gelatin)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.159
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Photographs depicting people and historically or geologically significant sites. Most of the collection consists of images of Norway, particularly the Sami people, towns, and reindeer. It also includes oversized postcards depicting temple remains in Agrigento (Girgenti), Italy, color images of Biblical locations in Jerusalem and Palestine, and imag...
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Hare, Raymond A.
- Dates:
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1930s -1960s
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6 Linear feet (2300 photographs)
- Collection ID:
- FSA.A1989.03
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Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Ambassador Raymond A. Hare (1901-1994) created this collection to document the architecture, cities, and landscapes of the Middle East, including Afghanistan, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Palestine, Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen.A photograph album of 90 silver-gelatin photographs depicts minarets in Cairo, Egypt, with annotations in Arabic and English describing the date and title of each minaret. Two portfolios of photographs presented to Ambassador Hare in 1965 by the senior staff of the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to Turkey to commemorate his service as Ambassador to Turkey from 1961-1965. Included are 52 matted photographs, many signed by the photographer Ara Guler and dated and captioned, documenting the art and architecture of the Seljuks and the Armenians at the Armenian center of Ani. The slides, 1930s - 1960s, created by Hare document Islamic architecture and people and place views of North Africa, Turkey, Egypt, and Syria.