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Portrait of Mustafa Fouad (Fuat), Albania, circa 1905. After coming to America in 1913, Fouad opened a grocery in Biddeford. Later, he moved to the Midwest before settling in New York and changing his name to Henry Kasem. An untranslated inscription in Ottoman Turkish is visible under the portrait.

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• Title: Mustafa Fouad (Fuat), Albania, ca. 1905
• Creation Date: 1905
• Subject Date: 1905
• Location: Albania
• Media: Photographic print
• Local Code: 2022.011.5
• Collection: General Image Collection
• Object Type: Image

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Standardized Subject Headings

• Albanian Americans--Maine--Biddeford
• Grocers--Maine--Biddeford
• Grocery trade
• Muslims--Maine--Biddeford

People

• Fuat, Mustafa
• Kasem, Henry

Other Keywords

• Albanian-Americans
• Biddeford
• Immigrants
• Muslims

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