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TitleLetter from Harry C. Smalley, Principal of Bridgeton High School, to H. Leon Yager, WRA, May 25, 1945

Date Created1945-05-25

DescriptionA letter from the principal of Bridgeton High School, Harry C. Smalley, praises Japanese American students and the ease with which they have been assimilated into the student body. Smalley claims that...

Time PeriodPostwar Years (1945-1970)

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TitleKozo Soogiwoora (Yoshinari Hatakeyama) in Traditional Dress

Date Created1874

DescriptionKozo Soogiwoora was born Hatakeyama Yoshinari in Kagoshima, Japan. He left Japan under an assumed name and entered Rutgers College in 1867, graduating in 1871. Upon his return to Japan in 1873, he...

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), The Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period, (1868-1912)

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TitleIchizo Hattori

Date Created1875

DescriptionIchizo Hattori graduated from Rutgers as a member of the class of 1875 with a degree in the sciences. During his time at Rutgers, he was an active member of Beta Theta Pi and the Epsilon Chi...

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), The Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period, (1868-1912)

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TitleKozo Soogiwoora (Yoshinari Hatakeyama) in Western Dress

Date Created1874

DescriptionKozo Soogiwoora was born Yoshinari Hatakeyama in Kagoshima, Japan. He left Japan under an assumed name and entered Rutgers College in 1867, graduating in 1871. Upon his return to Japan in 1873, he...

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), The Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period, (1868-1912)

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TitleYokoi Brothers

Date Created1867

DescriptionSacheita Yokoi (1845-1877) and Daihei Yokoi (1850-1871) travelled from Japan to New Brunswick, New Jersey in the late 1860's under the assumed names of Sataro Ise and Saburo Numagawa, respectively, as...

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), Meiji period, (1868-1912)

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TitleJunso Matsumura (Zun Zow Matsmulla)

Date Created1871

DescriptionJunso Matsumura entered Rutgers College in 1868, but left after three terms of study in 1869 to enroll in the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland as a cadet midshipman. Four years...

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), The Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period, (1868-1912)

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TitleTadanari Matsudaira

Date Created1879

DescriptionTadanari Matsudaira came to Rutgers College in 1875 from a Japanese samurai family. He became head of the family after his father's early death. He graduated from Rutgers College in June of 1879 with...

Time PeriodThe Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period (1868-1912)

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TitleTaro Kusakabe

Date Created1867

DescriptionTaro Kusakabe (Yasohachi Yagi) was the first student from Fukui, Echizen, Japan to come to America, as a student of Reverend Edward T. Corwin of Millstone, New Jersey. He was the first Japanese...

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), Meiji period, (1868-1912)

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TitleMitsuye Oi

Date Created1892

DescriptionMitsuye Oi was born in Kochi, Japan in 1864. He received a degree in Classical Studies from Rutgers College in 1892. In 1895, he received an M.A. degree from New Brunswick Theological Seminary. He...

Time PeriodThe Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930), The Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period, (1868-1912)

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TitleYoshio Ohsawa

Date Created1873

DescriptionYoshio Ohsawa was one of the early Japanese students who came to Rutgers College.

Time PeriodCivil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), The Industrial Revolution (1870-1900), Meiji period, (1868-1912)