Item #12677 [Elaborate Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Experiences of Lebanese-American James Habib and His Family While Serving in the U.S. Military in Germany]. Lebanese-American Photographica, Habib Family.
[Elaborate Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Experiences of Lebanese-American James Habib and His Family While Serving in the U.S. Military in Germany].
[Elaborate Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Experiences of Lebanese-American James Habib and His Family While Serving in the U.S. Military in Germany].
[Elaborate Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Experiences of Lebanese-American James Habib and His Family While Serving in the U.S. Military in Germany].
[Elaborate Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Experiences of Lebanese-American James Habib and His Family While Serving in the U.S. Military in Germany].
[Elaborate Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Experiences of Lebanese-American James Habib and His Family While Serving in the U.S. Military in Germany].
Lebanese-American Soldier in the American Army

[Elaborate Annotated Vernacular Photograph Album Documenting the Experiences of Lebanese-American James Habib and His Family While Serving in the U.S. Military in Germany].

[Germany: 1956-1963]. [24] leaves, illustrated with 192 tissue-guarded photographs, including over a dozen large-format images, with the first 112 photos captioned in ink manuscript in the margins, and a few scattered captions thereafter. Oblong large folio. Contemporary presentation photograph album bound in cream leather, with leather belt-strap on spine, with gilt titles on front board reading, "Germany 1956-1959 Kaiserslautern Mannheim Memories of Europe The Habib Family." Minor soiling to boards. Light occasional soiling to album leaves. A handsome album, in very good condition. Item #12677

An extraordinary annotated vernacular photograph album recording the experiences of James "Jim" Habib, his wife Mae, their son Paul, and James's mother Rose while James served in the 533rd Ordnance Company at the American military bases at Kaiserslautern and Mannheim, Germany in the Eisenhower years. Both Jim and Mae Habib were second-generation Lebanese Americans, born to immigrant parents in Fall River and Boston, Massachusetts, respectively.  The album records a wide variety of activities on base, centering on family and community life, including images of the Vogelweh Housing Area in Kaiserslautern, the company Christmas party given for military children (at which Jim, a Christian, dressed up as Santa Claus), the company bowling team, volunteer work at the local "Kinderheim" (orphanage), weddings, parties, sightseeing around Germany, and so forth. The final eighty-or-so images reflect more intimate family settings for the Habibs, with numerous images of newborn Vanessa Habib. Laid-into the album is a color portrait of Jim Habib in his olive green utility uniform. A captivating peek into the lives of a Lebanese-American family serving faithfully in the U.S. Army in midcentury Germany.

Price: $1,750

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