DescriptionYamate (山手), referred to in English as "The Bluff," was the foreigner's residential area from the Bakumatsu to Taisho periods. Initially a foreign settlement for the diplomats, missionaries also...
DescriptionLuman J. Shafer attended Rutgers College from 1905 to 1909. Upon graduation he continued his studies at the New Burnswick Theology School and graduated in 1912. After graduating from the Theological...
DescriptionWilliam E. Grffis with his first science class at Kaisei Gakkō (開成学校) in 1872. Griffis's note at the top identifies one of his students as Komura Jutarō (小村寿太郎), or "Baron" and...
DescriptionEugene S. Booth is a Rutgers College and New Brunswick Theological Seminary alumni. Booth became an Reformed Church missionary and in 1882 succeeded Mary E. Kidder as the president of the Ferris...
DescriptionMargaret Clark Griffis, older sister of William E. Griffis, ventured to Japan in 1872 at the request of her brother. In Japan, she taught and became the princeipal of Tokyo Government Girls' School...
DescriptionFerris Seminary was founded by Mary Kidder, the first unmarried female missionary to settle in Japan, in 1870. It served as an all girls school and is Japan's first higher learning school for women....
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...
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...
