[Portrait of Khaled Abdul Wahab]

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1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Khaled Abdul-Wahab (1911-1997), a wealthy Muslim Tunisian man who studied art and architecture in New York City before World War II. During the war, he saved several Jewish families from Nazi persecution in Vichy-Tunisia.

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Carl van Vechten photographed Khaled Abdul Wahab in 1936. Abdul Wahab was born in 1911 and came from a wealthy Muslim Tunisian family. At the time of this portrait, he was studying art and architecture in New York City.

During the Second World War, Abdul Wahab would return to Tunisia, then under Vichy French control. There he intervened to protect several Jewish families from Nazi persecution, sheltering them from deportation. He died in 1997.

Van Vechten's portrait sits among a much larger body of work. He photographed writers, artists, performers, and other notable figures throughout the middle decades of the twentieth century, building an extensive archive now held by the Library of Congress.

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