[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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The archive record identifies the subject as Khaled Abdul Wahab, who was born in 1911 and died in 1997. According to the record, he was a wealthy Muslim Tunisian who studied art and architecture in New York City before the Second World War.

During the war, the record states that he saved several Jewish families from Nazi persecution in Vichy-Tunisia.

The photographer was Carl Van Vechten. The print is a gelatin silver photograph made in 1936, when Abdul Wahab would have been twenty-five years old and likely still pursuing or recently finished with his studies in New York.

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