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[Personal and professional archive of a young woman appointed as a special term missionary to the Japan Mission of the Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, 1926-1929]
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- Woman's Christian College of Japan report of trustees to supporting missions and co-operating committee in America
- Tokyo Women's Club year book
- Bible Society record
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- Manuscripts, Theses; Photos, Drawings, Prints
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- English, Japanese
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- [1926-1929]
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- 3 boxes : illustrations (some color) ; 23 x 31 x 8 cm
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- on1086613190
- An archive of letters, booklets, pamphlets, travel brochures, programs, schoolwork, artwork, music scores, photographs, postcards, ledger books, and other ephemera.
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- Inventory of books: American Red Cross Abridged Text-book on First Aid: Woman's edition / by Major Charles Lynch (Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., ©1913) -- The Forest Poetic: new edition / compliments of Charles Lathrop Pack (Washington, D.C.: American Tree Association, 1924) -- The sword of the samurai / by Tracy D. Mygatt (New York: The Century Co., ©1926).
- Inventory of periodicals: Woman's Christian College of Japan report of trustees to supporting missions and co-operating committee in America (May 1926, and May 1927 reports) -- Annual commencement of the Woman's Christian College of Japan (March 23, 1928) -- Human architecture: the social philosophy of Toyohika Kagawa (from January 1928 Y.W.C.A. News Service) -- The Tokyo Women's Club year book (1927-28; 1928-29) -- Bible Society record (vol. 71, no. 12, December 1926).
- Inludes 3 manuscript volumes of student art work from Japan Oral School for the Deaf presented to Miss Perkins.
- Marion O. Perkins of Germantown, Pa., was assigned to the Joshi Gakuin School in Tokyo, Japan. Her application to become a missionary in Japan was received by The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. on November 2, 1925. On January 23, 1926 she from San Francisco to Yokohama, Japan, on the Steamship President Taft. Her salary as a signle woman was $1125 per year and living quarters were furnished.
- The Board of Foreign Missions (PCUSA) began plans for work in Japan shortly after the conclusion of a Japanese-American treaty in 1854. The mission's work in Japan was primarily educational and evangelistic. Because of the extensive Japanese system of hospitals and primary schools, no effort was made by the Board to compete. The lack of adequate secondary and higher education facilities for girls and young women resulted in the establishment of several Christian institutions, including Joshi Gakuin (1873), Wilmina Jo Gakuin (1907) and the Woman's Christian College (1918). In addition, the mission conducted ten kindergartens, a boys' middle school and college (Meiji Gakuin), and an Oral School for the Deaf. The mission also cooperated in the operation of two theological seminaries.
- English and Japanese.