Formal Wedding: First Edition (1 results)
More imagesFormal Portrait Taken at the Wedding of William Jackson Callahan and Martha Taylor Callahan, at the Kwassui Girls' School in Nagasaki, 1893
[American Missionaries in Japan - Methodist Missionary Schools - Kwassui School] Ikuta, Photographer
Published by Ikuta, Nagasaki 1893
- First Edition
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Add to basketCondition: Near Fine. A photograph of the wedding party of the American missionary and author William Jackson Callahan and Martha Taylor Callahan, taken at the Kwassui Girls' School (later Kwassui Women's University) in Nagasaki. At the time, Taylor was representing the Women's Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and servin…g perhaps as principal of the school, which had been started in 1879. Callahan began his work as a teacher in Japan shortly after graduating from Emory, in 1890. The two would spend over forty-five years in Japan as missionaries. Albumen photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on a larger mount, with the imprint of Ikuta, Uwajima on mount recto. Slight fading, near fine condition. With identifying marks to verso.
