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This collection is comprised of three anonymous photograph albums: The Goodwill Train photograph album, the Lingnan University photograph album, and the Views of Friends' Mission, Tokyo, Japan photograph album. The Goodwill Train album records the arrival of a "Goodwill Train" arriving in Dusseldorf, Germany, in 1948. The Lingnan University album includes photographs of Lingnan University students, doctors, the hospital floor plan, and Hong Kong, with captions in Chinese. The Friends' Mission, Tokyo album includes photographs of the Friends' Girls' school in Tokyo.
See item acquisition notes.
Processed by Kara Flynn; completed September, 2015.
Organization
Subject
- Quakers -- China
- Universities and colleges -- China
- Hospitals -- China
- Quakers -- Education
- Society of Friends -- Missions -- Japan
- Society of Friends -- Japan
Place
- Publisher
- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
- Finding Aid Author
- Kara Flynn
- Finding Aid Date
- September, 2015
- Access Restrictions
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The collection is open for research use.
- Use Restrictions
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Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).
Collection Inventory
This album is entitled "Arrival of the American Friendshiptrain 'The Goodwill Train'" and the photos record the arrival in Dusseldorf, Germany on December 3, 1948.
The American Friendship Train collected food, clothing, and fuel from American donors as it traveled across the country, to transport to people in Germany, Italy, and France during late 1947 and early 1948. The idea was proposed by journalist Drew Pearson, and was taken up by other newspapers.
Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17).
Physical Description0.02 linear ft.
This volume includes photos from Lingnan University students, doctors, the hospital floor plan, and Hong Kong, with captions in Chinese.
Lingnan University was founded by missionaries of the Religious Society of Friends as a missionary school in Canton, China in 1884. It was incorporated in New York State in 1893 as the Christian College in China. In 1903, the name was changed to Canton Christian College, and in 1926 the name was again changed to Ling Nan University. The university was reorganized and taken over by the Chinese in 1927.
Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17).
MC 1160 William Warder Cadbury papersMC 1192 William Warder Cadbury and Catherine J. Cadbury papersMC 1195 William Wistar Comfort papersMC 1130 Rufus Matthew Jones papersMC.975.07.100 "From World War One to the Bicentennial: An Autobiography"
Physical Description0.12 linear ft.
MC 1212 Bowles family papersMC.975.02.032 Gilbert and Minnie Bowles correspondenceMC 1010 Lewis family papersMC 988E Quaker Miscellaneous PicturesMC 1153 Esther B. Rhoads papers
This volume is composed of photographs from the Friends' Mission in Tokyo, Japan. Included are photographs of the Friends' Girls' school, teacher's residences, teachers and students, views of Tokyo, classes of Sunday school children, and classes of calisthenics, flower arrangement, Koto (traditional Japanese instrument). One photograph of white missionaries is labeled with the folowing names: G. Bowles, A.G. Lewis, I.E. Taber, William T. Ellis, and S. Ellis.
Standard Federal Copyright Law Applies (U.S. Title 17).
Friends Girls School Tokyo was founded in 1887 by US missionaries from Philadelphia, at the request of Nitobe Inazo, Quaker undersecretary of the League of Nations. When the school was established, there were six teachers and three students. A fire in 1902 and the firebombings of Tokyo in the spring of 1945 destroyed the buildings, but the school was repeatedly rebuilt with the help of Japanese and American Quakers.
In the present day, the Friends School in Tokyo continues as a junior/senior high school for 800 girls.
Physical Description0.02 linear ft.