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Japan

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Thomas E. and Esther B. Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-21
Scope and Contents

The Thomas E. and Esther B. Jones Collection consists of personal papers of Thomas E. Jones, the president of Fisk University from 1926 to 1946 and Earlham College from 1946 to 1958, and his wife Esther (Balderston) Jones, a missionary teacher in Japan.  It contains significant material on Quaker work in Japan, race relations, Earlham College, and Quaker affairs in the twentieth century.

Dates: 1911-1974; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1992

Wilfred V. Jones Collection

 Collection
Identifier: FMS-32
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a scrapbook about Jones' year at the Imperial University in Tokyo in 1926-27 as a goodwill ambassador, a diary of travels in Spain in 1937, and miscellaneous writings and clippings.

Dates: 1927-1937