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David Proskauer Quaker Music
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-296
Overview
This collection consists of Quaker music written by David Proskauer. It contains both handwritten and printed works, notably A Young Woman's Quaker Life, which feautures the poem Barbara Fretchie by John Greenleaf Whittier, and Proskauer's Quaker Voices: A Cantata, which features poems such as First Day Thoughts by John Greenleaf Whittier, Draw Breath by Geoffrey Weedon, Psalm 139 v. 1-7, Sonnet for a Quaker Wedding by Kenneth Boulding, and Faith by John Gould Fletcher. He's also included...
Dates:
1994 - 2018
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
Isaac Hicks Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-197
Overview
Isaac Hicks (1767-1820) was a New York Quaker merchant. He established a large fleet of international trading vessels and financially helped to support his cousin, Edward Hicks (1780-1849), the Pennsylvania Quaker folk artist. Isaac Hicks traveled extensively with his cousin, Elias Hicks (1748-1830), the New York Quaker minister. The collection contains primarily the correspondence of Isaac Hicks, including letters from Isaac Hicks to his wife describing religious journeys taken with Elias...
Dates:
1798-ca. 1956 (bulk 1798-1818)
James House collection
Collection
Identifier: HCQ-003-100
Overview
The collection contains email printouts with information about events taking place at James House.
Dates:
2008 - 2012
Edna Stover Pullinger correspondence on Quaker Hymns
Collection — othertype: SC-102
Identifier: SFHL-SC-102
Abstract
This collection contains the correspondence of Edna Stover in response to her request for information about the origins and copyrights of individual hymns to be used in a new Quaker hymn book. Many of the letters are from the authors, from many different denominations, regarding their personal histories and the history of the hymns.
Dates:
1955-1957
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- American Women's College in Beirut 1
- Boulding, Kenneth E. (Kenneth Ewart), 1910-1993 1
- Comly, John, 1773-1850 1
- Fisher, Miers, 1748-1819 1
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