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Date Created1901
DescriptionIwakura Tomosada (岩倉具定; Asahi (旭)), son of Iwakura Tomomi (岩倉具視), studied under Guido Verbeck in Nagasaki, then departed for the United States in 1870, together with his brother,...
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Date Created1861
DescriptionPortrait of Tomita Tetsunosuke (富田鐡之助) (seated) and Takaki Saburō (高木三郎) (standing). Tomita and Takaki were Katsu Kaishū (勝海舟)'s mentees and were selected by Katsu to...
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Date Created1870
DescriptionPortrait of Takaki Samro (Takaki Saburō, 高木三郎) in a suit. Takaki traveled alongside Tomita Tetsunosuke (富田鐡之助) as Katsu Koroku (勝小鹿)'s guardians to New Brunswick, New Jersey,...
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Date Created1867
DescriptionPortrait of Kusakabe Tarō (日下部太郎) (right) with Yokoi Saheita (横井左平太) and Daihei (大平) wearing suits.
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Date Created1870
DescriptionThe Grammar School was chartered in 1766 as the Queen's College Grammar School. In 1825, Queen's College was renamed Rutgers College, and in 1883, the Grammar School was renamed the Rutgers...
Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), The Industrial Revolution (1870-1900)
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Date Created1867
DescriptionYokoi Saheita (横井左平太; 1845-1875) and Yokoi Daihei (横井大平; 1850-1871) travelled from Japan to New Brunswick, New Jersey in the late 1860's under the assumed names of Ise Sataro...
Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), Meiji period, (1868-1912)
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Date Created1870-04-19
DescriptionGroup photograph of some of the earliest Japanese students studying at Rutgers College and Grammar School. The inscription on the right indicates that the photograph was taken on April 19, 1870, and...
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Date Created1871
DescriptionGroup photograph of some of the earliest Japanese students in Rutgers College and Grammar School. The note on the back identifies the students as: 1. Soogano [Sugano Kakubē], 2. Nara [Nara Shinshi...