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1956 March 10-May 31

Box 302, Reel m mar 10, Frame 894

Rockefeller Foundation. Division of Humanities.

The diary is arranged by interview and visit. John Marshall is an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Humanities Division. The program is concerned with history, philosophy, linguistics and the arts. Grants are organized into intercultural studies, humanistic research, the arts and special projects. Marshall takes a trip to the Near East from 10 March-16April 1956 to survey teaching English in Cairo and American studies abroad. In the United States, he takes a trip to Oak Ridge, Tennessee and gives his impressions and recommendations of the Oak Ridge Arts Council. Marshall also attends the ACLS Commission on the Humanities in Worchester, Massachusetts.

Trip to the Middle East, 1960 January 9-April 7

Reel m fah 7, Frame 407, Box 145

Rockefeller Foundation. Division of Humanities.

Athens, Beirut, Cairo.

Trip to Near East, 1951 February 16-March 18

Reel m mar 7, Frame 334, Box 298

Marshall, John (1903-1980)

The diary is arranged by interview and visit. John Marshall is an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Humanities Division. He takes a trip to the Near East to assess and survey Rockefeller Foundation Humanities program interests. The diary includes "Tentative list of Participants for Conference on Contemporary Studies of the Arab World."

1955 January 4-March 5

Reel m mar 10, Frame 1, Box 301

Marshall, John (1903-1980)

1957 January 3-March 31

Reel m mar 11, Frame 320, Box 302

Marshall, John (1903-1980)

The diary is arranged by interview and visit. John Marshall is an associate director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Humanities Division. The program is concerned with history, philosophy, linguistics and the arts. Grants are organized into intercultural studies, humanistic research, the arts and special projects. Marshall takes a trip to the Near East from 1 March-31 March 1957. Topics that are discussed during this trip include philanthropy and the arts in Turkey, the Istanbul Conservatory, and teaching English in Egypt. The diary also details Marshall's conversations with Lincoln Kirstein regarding his impression of performing arts in the United States and Canada.

William P. Jacocks photographs, 1915-1941 0.1 Cubic Feet

Jacocks, William Picard (1877-1965)

The collection contains four photograph albums of Jacocks' trips to Egypt, Asia (1916-1917), Trinidad (1916), and the British West Indies (1916-1918). The photographs depict shipboard activities, the Suez Canal and Port Said; and the pitch industry, "coolies," and scenic views of Trinidad. There are a few photographs of India and Ceylon (1935) and a photograph of the American High Commissioners in India (1941). Also included are 27 lantern slides showing snail clearance from irrigation ditches and fields in Egypt (1930s).

Trip to the Middle East - Index, 1960 January 9-April 7

Box 145, Reel m fah 7, Frame 404

Fahs, Charles B. (Charles Burton) (1908-1980)

Athens, Beirut, Cairo.

Ford Foundation records, International Division, Office Files of Robert H. Edwards, 1968-1977 3.28 Cubic Feet

Edwards, Robert H. (Robert Hazard) (1935-)

Robert H. (Hazard) Edwards joined the Ford Foundation as a program officer for the International Division in 1965. In 1968, Mr. Edwards served as the Foundation's Representative in Pakistan. He later transferred to the Middle East and Africa (MEA) Program in the early 1970s where he would serve as Deputy Head under William Fredericks. In 1973, he succeeded Fredericks as MEA Head. Mr. Edwards left the Foundation in 1977 to accept an appointment as President of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The Office Files of Robert H. Edwards span from 1968 to 1977 and comprise the files that Mr. Edwards kept as Head of the International Division's MEA Program. The collection is organized into three series: program management files, subject files, and chronological files. The program management files primarily consist of memoranda but also correspondence, notes, reports, and papers relating to the work of Mr. Edwards's program officer Lowell S. Hardin. Mr. Edwards's subject files contain memoranda, correspondence, papers, speeches, reports, meeting materials, and background primarily pertaining to the Foundation's programs in the Middle East and Africa. His chronological files of correspondence and memoranda from the year 1968 and the years between 1972 and 1977 are also available.

Claude H. Barlow papers, 1919-1964 4.6 Cubic Feet

Barlow, Claude H.

The Claude H . Barlow collection covers the period from 1919 to 1964. Important subjects covered in this collection are: Bilharzia Snail Destruction Section; canal clearance; hookworm; sanitation; schistosomiasis; self-infection with schistosomiasis, fluke; snail research and studies; Fluke; and copper sulphate.

Orest von Klemm papers, 1900-1925 1.5 Linear Feet

Personal and official correspondence and documents: includes clippings, correspondence, manuscripts, and records related to his activities as a journalist in Paris

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1956 March 10-May 31

Trip to the Middle East, 1960 January 9-April 7

Trip to Near East, 1951 February 16-March 18

1955 January 4-March 5

1957 January 3-March 31

William P. Jacocks photographs, 1915-1941 0.1 Cubic Feet

Trip to the Middle East - Index, 1960 January 9-April 7

Ford Foundation records, International Division, Office Files of Robert H. Edwards, 1968-1977 3.28 Cubic Feet

Claude H. Barlow papers, 1919-1964 4.6 Cubic Feet

Orest von Klemm papers, 1900-1925 1.5 Linear Feet

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