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Rolla Foley Papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-310
Overview
This collection contains photographs, letters, documents, and pamphlets regarding Rolla Foley's musical career in the Near East between 1939-1945. He had various roles throughout music performances and festivals, most often compiling and editting the music, but also conducting on occasion. These festivals include the 1941 Palestine Children's Music Festival, the 1943 Children's Music Festival, the 1943 Syrian Students' Music Festival, the 1944-1945 Near East Music Festival, and the 1945 Folk...
Dates:
1941 - 1979
Khalil A. Totah and Eva Marshall Totah papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1210
Overview
The papers revolve around three topics and provide a picture of Quakers in Palestine in the 20th century: Khalil A. Totah, his second wife, Eva Marshall Totah and his first wife, Ermina Jones Totah. Khalil Totah discusses the situation in Palestine, primarily in the 1930s, and speaks of his own life and aspirations, as when he became a Quaker minister. His diaries expand the picture, adding information about Friends Boys School in Ramallah (Palestine) and his understanding of the political...
Dates:
1896-1955
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- American Women's College in Beirut 1
- Grant, Elihu, 1873-1942 1
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- Husayni , Amin, Grand Mufti, 1893-1974 1
- Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 1
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- MacMichael, H.A. (Harold Alfred), 1882-1969 1
- Madāris al-Frindz (Rām Allāh) 1
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- Oliver, Daniel, 1870-1952 1
- Rolla Foley (1915-1970) 1
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