Records. Japan Committee. 1923-74.

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Records. Japan Committee. 1923-74.

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Accounts, correspondence, minutes, photographs, printed material, reports of the committee and of individual appointees, notably Gilbert and Minnie Bowles, Herbert and Madeline Nicholson, Esther Rhoads and Edith Sharpless. Missionary work proceeded in the areas pf Christian education; evangelism and rural development; promotion of peaceful change; cross-cultural intervisitation; recruitment and financial support of teachers for Tokyo Friends Girls School and personnel for service through local Meetings and the Tokyo Friends Center. These and other activities took place chiefly in Tokyo, Osaka and Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan; Korea; and in the U.S. in the Philadelphia area amd Japanese-American Evacuation and Relocation Centers. The Japan Committee was dissolved in 1974. The responsibilities were then shared by Friends Council on Education, Friends World Committee, and the International Outreach Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

ca. 8,000 items in 24 boxes.

Haverford College Library

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Friends Council on Education (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Rhoads, Esther Biddle, 1896-1979

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Bowles, Minnie, 1868-1958

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The Bowles family was deeply involved with Quaker missionary and relief work during the 20th century. Gilbert Bowles was born on October 16, 1869 to Iowa Quaker farmers, Ephraim and Elizabeth Epperson Bowles, and educated at the Jewell County School for teacher training and Northbranch Friends Academy. He taught at various schools before returning to college and earning his BA and MA from William Penn College, Iowa, and his PhD from the University of Chicago, Illinois. Minnie Macy P...

Nicholson, Madeline Waterhouse.

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Sharpless, Edith Forsythe, 1883-1956

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Bowles, Gilbert, 1869-1960

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The Bowles family was deeply involved with Quaker missionary and relief work during the 20th century. Gilbert Bowles was born on October 16, 1869 to Iowa Quaker farmers, Ephraim and Elizabeth Epperson Bowles, and educated at the Jewell County School for teacher training and Northbranch Friends Academy. He taught at various schools before returning to college and earning his BA and MA from William Penn College, Iowa, and his PhD from the University of Chicago, Illinois. Minnie Macy P...

Friends World Committee for Consultation

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Nicholson, Herbert V. b. 1892.

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