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Group portrait of Mrs. Hepburn's Sunday school class. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-ffdb-gc79
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Group portrait of Mrs. Hepburn's Sunday school class. 1885. RUcore: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-ffdb-gc79

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TitleGroup portrait of Mrs. Hepburn's Sunday school class
NameHepburn, Clara Leete (Depicted)
Date Created1885
SubjectMissionaries, Women missionaries, Teachers, Foreign, Women teachers, Sunday schools, Japan--History--Meiji period, 1868-1912, Yokohama-shi (Japan), Hepburn, Clara Leete, 1818-1906
DescriptionThe oldest origin of Meiji Gakuin was a private English school started by Clara Maria Leete Hepburn, the wife of James C. Hepburn, in 1863. The school operated out of their home and sanatorium in Yokohama. The school was originally named Mrs. Hepburn's School, but is now known as the Hepburn School. The school enrolled both boys and girls and taught medicine and English. The school was successfull in producing many future leaders such as Prime Minister Takahashi Korekiyo (高橋是清), Minister of Foreign Affairs Hayashi Tadasu (林董), and University of Tokyo's professor of medicine, Miyake Hiizu (三宅 秀). The note on the back reads: "My Sunday School class taken under the Magnolia tree. 245 Bluff, Yokohama." Griffis's note on the back reads: "Mrs. Hepburn's S.S. Class. About 1885."
NoteDigital images include both the recto (front) and verso (back) of the original photograph.
NoteThis project was funded by a grant from the New Jersey Historical Commission.
GenrePhotographs, Portraits
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-ffdb-gc79
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Type: Book
Name: Rutgers meets Japan: a trans-Pacific network of the late nineteenth century
Detail: This item is associated with Chapter 14 in Rutgers Meets Japan: A Trans-Pacific Network of the Late Nineteenth Century, edited by Haruko Wakabayashi and Fernanda Perrone (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2026).
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Type: Finding aid
Name: Inventory to the William Elliot Griffis Collection (East Asia), 1859-1928
Detail: The items in this record are part of the William Elliot Griffis Collection. A finding aid with information about the contents of the collection is available online.
CollectionRutgers Meets Japan: A Digital Companion
Organization NameRutgers University. Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives
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