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...
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,...
DescriptionBrown cottage at Monson, Massachusetts. Students from Japan, in particular Satsuma and Kumamato, attended Monson Academy through introduction from Samuel R. Brown, the Reformed Church missionary who...
DescriptionA photograph of a painting by William M. Boyd (Rutgers Class of 1932), depicting the first intercollegiate football game played between Rutgers College and Princeton University on November 6, 1869.
DescriptionChurch Street, New Brunswick showcasing the Van Arsdale house where Fukui students, Yokoi Saheita, Yokoi Daihei, and Kusakabe Tarō (日下部太郎) stayed while studying in New Brunswick.
DescriptionWestern-style houses in Fukui that were built for foreign teachers of Meishinkan (明新館) domain school. The one on the left was built for William E. Griffis and was completed in September of 1871.
