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The A. Roy Knabenshue Collection contains approximately three and a half cubic feet of material relating to the life and career of a daring aeronaut and the United States' first successful dirigible pilot. The collection includes correspondence, photographic material, drawings of aircraft, and flight records. The material spans over seventy years, from the end of the nineteenth century to the nineteen-sixties.
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PLEASE NOTE: MANY OF THESE RECORDINGS INCLUDE ARABIC LANGUAGE. WHEN APPROPRIATE, PLEASE TRANSCRIBE WHAT IS SPOKEN IN ARABIC. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO TRANSCRIBE IN ARABIC PLEASE DO NOT MARK THE PAGE COMPLETE, SO THAT OTHER VOLUNTEERS MAY CONTINUE WORKING ON IT. Please view the instructions for transcribing audio collections before beginning. Would you like to play a part in Arab American History; would you like to learn more about early Arab-America immigration? Help us transcribe these valuable Arab American oral history interviews. The Faris and Yamma Naff Arab American documents the immigration and assimilation of mostly Christian Syrian-Lebanese who came to America at the turn of the twentieth century. The immigrants were predominately-small land-owning peasants and artisans from the village of Syria and Lebanon. It was in these Syrian communities created by Arab immigrants that Dr. Naff sought interviews, photographs and personal papers.
smithdigital213 transcribed a page from South Carolina Assistant Commissioner, Registered Letters Received, Entered in Registers 4 & 5, F–J, Nov. 1866–Dec. 1867, Part 2
JoanneM transcribed a page from North Carolina Field Offices, Subordinate Field Offices: Hillsboro, Letters Received, May 1866–Dec. 1868, Part 2
cgull57 transcribed a page from North Carolina Field Offices, Subordinate Field Offices: Hillsboro, Letters Received, May 1866–Dec. 1868, Part 1
Susiew22 transcribed a page from Doris Holmes Blake - Correspondence with Arthur Lake Holmes and Lucy Wentworth Holmes, undated (Folder 2 of 4)
Anisha55 transcribed a page from South Carolina Assistant Commissioner, Registered Letters Received, Entered in Registers 4 & 5, F–J, Nov. 1866–Dec. 1867, Part 4
khmoffett97 transcribed a page from South Carolina Assistant Commissioner, Registered Letters Received, Entered in Registers 4 & 5, F–J, Nov. 1866–Dec. 1867, Part 4
crystallee transcribed a page from North Carolina Field Offices, Subordinate Field Offices: Hillsboro, Letters Received, May 1866–Dec. 1868, Part 2
