Reformed Mission School, Sendai, Japan. [graphic].

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Title	Reformed Mission School, Sendai, Japan. [graphic].
Publisher	[Sendai, Japan] : [publisher not identified]
Date	[ca. 1900]
Physical Description	1 print : tinted lithograph ; sheet 33 x 10 cm (13 x 26 in.)
Description	Group portrait of Elizabeth R. Poorbaugh, Mary Ault, and over forty students from Miyagi Jogakko, a school for girls, in Sendai, Japan. Shows the young women and girl students, attired in kimonos, and sitting and standing in rows. In the left, Mary Ault sits with the youngest girls. In the center, Elizabeth Poorbaugh sits with her young niece Kitty, attired in a white apron, on her lap. Shrubs and potted plants are in the foreground. The school building and trees are visible in the background. Elizabeth R. Poorbaugh Cort (1854-1927) was born in Berlin, Pennsylvania. She traveled to Japan with her niece, whom she raised following the death of her sister-in-law. She founded Miyagi Jogakko, a school for girls, with Mary Ault in 1886 in Sendai, Japan. She served as principal for seven years. She married Rev. Cyrus Cort in 1893. Mary Ault Hoy (1863-1937) was born in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. She served as a teacher at Miyagi Jogakko. She married Rev. William Edwin Hoy. She died in Hankou, China.
Notes	Title from item.
	Date inferred from content.
	Text printed on recto: Founded in September 1886, by Miss Lizzie R. Poorbaugh and Miss Mary B. Ault, Missionaries of the Reformed Church in the United States. Miss Ault is on the left side of the picture among the smaller girls. Miss Poorbaugh is seated near the centre, with her niece Kitty on her lap. Kitty is known by her white apron.
Subject	Cort, Elizabeth R. Poorbaugh, 1854-1927 -- Portaits.
	Hoy, Mary Ault, 1863-1937 -- Portraits.
	Poorbaugh, Kitty -- Portraits.
	Miyagi Jogakko.
	Girls -- Japanese.
	Girls -- Portraits.
	Japanese.
	Japanese students.
	Kimonos.
	Missionaries -- Japan -- Sendai.
	Schools -- Japan -- Sendai.
	Women -- Portraits.
	Women -- Japanese.
	AAPI.
Geographic subject	Sendai (Japan)
Genre	Group portraits -- 1890-1900.
	Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1890-1900.
	Portraits -- 1890-1900.
Location	Library Company of Philadelphia\| Print Department\| group portrait prints – education - Reformed Mission School [P.2024.28]
Accession number	P.2024.28

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