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Ecumenical Programs Records, 197?-1993 7.75 linear feet
The Ecumenical Programs at Union Theological Seminary were designed to help students through programs within the Seminary and through exploration of opportunities for exchange study with seminaries around the world. Collection contains correspondence, reports, pamphlets, negatives, slides and other material.
Ford Foundation records, Developing Countries Program, Office Files of Peter F. Geithner, 1970-1987, bulk 1981-1987, 1970-1987, bulk 1981-1987 1.52 Cubic Feet
Collection contains the staff subject files of Peter F. Geithner that Geithner created during the time he served as Program Officer in Charge of the Ford Foundation's Developing Countries Program (DCP) between 1981 and 1987. The collection so far consists only of Geithner's meeting and trip files. Meeting files contain correspondence, memos, drafts, notes, papers, agendas, active grants lists, invitation lists, brochures, publications, guides, and summaries that document the work that Geithner, other Ford Foundation staff members such as the different Country Representatives, and external individuals and organizations completed for organizing, participating in, and reporting on various Ford Foundation program meetings and other types of events and conferences. Trip files contain the same type of materials found in the meeting files as well as itineraries and travel information memos and documents. Geithner created these files to document his visits to various countries and Ford Foundation field offices as well as the visits he helped organize for individuals like Foundation Board of Trustees Members. There are also a few photographs within the collection.
Ford Foundation records, International Division, Middle East and Africa, Office Files of Betty Skolnick, 1970-1975, 1970-1975 1.41 Cubic Feet
Collection contains the staff subject files Betty Skolnick created during her time in the Ford Foundation's Middle East and Africa Program (MEA). Between 1973 and 1975, Skolnick served in the MEA, first as a Training Associate and then as an Assistant Program Officer. Materials within the collection document her assistance on Foundation projects aimed at supporting language development research. Records such as correspondence, memos, notes, reports, articles, and brochures show the Foundation's interest in engaging and promoting research regarding language in education, language policy and planning, and linguistics. This research primarily concerns language development in African countries such as Nigeria and Tanzania. Some records document the Foundation's grant support to institutions in African countries for development oriented language research and training.
Ford Foundation records, International Division, Middle East and Africa Program, Correspondence, 1960-1970 1.9 Cubic Feet
The collection contains correspondence and memoranda from the Middle East and Africa (MEA) Program, including general chronological correspondence files and correspondence from the field offices of Cairo, Lagos, Beirut, Ankara, Nairobi, and Tunis. The collection spans from 1960-1970.
Ford Foundation records, International Division, Office Files of Robert H. Edwards, 1968-1977 3.28 Cubic Feet
Kenneth C. Smithburn papers, 1904-1974, bulk 1938-1959 7.43 Cubic Feet
The Kenneth C. Smithburn papers document the career of research scientist Kenneth C. Smithburn in the identification and isolation of viruses, particularly the Yellow Fever virus in Africa. The papers also document more broadly the Foundation's interest in public health through the International Health Division and its successor, the Division of Medicine and Public Health. The papers span the years 1922 to 1974, with the bulk falling between the years 1938 through 1959.
Marc and Evelyne Bernheim collection, 1961-1969 56.25 Linear Feet
The Marc and Evelyne Bernheim Photography Collection of black and white photographic prints, contact sheets, color slides, negatives, correspondence, notes, and excerpts of "pix stories" documents the 1960s experience of peoples primarily on the continent of Africa. The collection also includes photos of people and places in parts of Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, and parts of the United States, especially New York City. The bulk of this image archive highlights the challenges of modern development in African societies and on traditional and modern African artistic and cultural expression in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, and Zambia. There are also files on tourism and wildlife management in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. The collection is organized by country, region, and photographic assignments carried out during the period 1961-1969 on the following main themes: the new educated African elite—both men and women---a few presidents and other famous politicians, development workers, "youth leaders", business people, doctors, midwives, artists, dancers, musicians, writers, university professors, radio announcers, school children, etc. in West, East, and Southern Africa; the new urban architecture and housing developments in parts of West, East, and Southern Africa; public health projects in urban and rural areas of West, East, and Southern Africa; traditional and modern developments in education in various parts of West, East, and Southern Africa; livelihoods in farming and pastoral areas of West Africa; the daily lives of non-elites, especially children and their families facing the challenges of development in parts of West, East, Southern and North Africa; life and landscapes under apartheid in South Africa—Cape Town and the wine country and Johannesburg—segregated "Europeans Only" places, the Black townships, and the nearby mines; the intersection of African traditional forms of healing and "modern medicine"; other aspects of religion in Africa (traditional African, Christian, and Islamic)—especially in West Africa and Ethiopia; and, the arts in Africa---traditional and modern architecture, sculpture and painting, including images of important landmark historical sculptures and buildings, as well as portraits of modern artists and crafts people in West, East, and northeast Africa. The collection also contains images from trips taken to document people, places, and the challenges of development in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, India, Thailand, and Indonesia, as well as images from a private collection of African sculpture in the USA, scenes from Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, an animal research center in Texas, interiors and people at the United Nations headquarters in New York, composers and musicians at work inside the newly constructed Lincoln Center—especially the Julliard School, and other people and places in the New York City area.