Vol. 3 Views of Friends' Mission, Tokyo, Japan, Undated
Scope and Content note
This volume is composed of photographs from the Friends' Mission in Tokyo, Japan. Included are photographs of the Friends' Girls' school, teacher's residences, teachers and students, views of Tokyo, classes of Sunday school children, and classes of calisthenics, flower arrangement, Koto (traditional Japanese instrument). One photograph of white missionaries is labeled with the folowing names: G. Bowles, A.G. Lewis, I.E. Taber, William T. Ellis, and S. Ellis.
Dates
- Creation: Undated
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use.
Use Restrictions
Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17).
Historical note
Friends Girls School Tokyo was founded in 1887 by US missionaries from Philadelphia, at the request of Nitobe Inazo, Quaker undersecretary of the League of Nations. When the school was established, there were six teachers and three students. A fire in 1902 and the firebombings of Tokyo in the spring of 1945 destroyed the buildings, but the school was repeatedly rebuilt with the help of Japanese and American Quakers.
In the present day, the Friends School in Tokyo continues as a junior/senior high school for 800 girls.
Extent
0.02 Linear Feet
Language
English
Acquisition
Unknown.
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