John Caldwell Calhoun Newton photograph collection relating to Japanese Buddhism
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 84-6, USNM ACC 28096
name: label: Creator
content: Newton, John C. Calhoun, 1848-
place: label: Place
content: Japan
topic: label: Topic
content: Buddhas
label: Topic
content: Buddhist temples
label: Topic
content: Buddhism
creator: label: Creator
content: Newton, John C. Calhoun, 1848-
culture: label: Culture
content: Japanese
label: Culture
content: Buddhists
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: John Caldwell Calhoun Newton (1848-1923) was a Methodist minister and missionary to Japan. He was born in South Carolina and educated at Kentucky Wesleyan College, Kentucky Military Institute, and Johns Hopkins University. After working as a minister in Kentucky and Virginia, he made his first trip to Japan in 1888-1897. There, he served as a faculty member and then dean of the theological school at the Kwansei Gakuin Union Mission College and Seminary in Kobe. He returned to Japan in 1903 and served as President of the Mission College from 1913-1923.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 11 Albumen prints (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1888-1894
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by John Caldwell Calhoun Newton to the United States National Museum in 1894 (accession 28096). Transferred to the National Anthropological Archives by Chang-su Houchins of the Department of Anthropology, 1984.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.84-6
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
otherfindaid: label: Other Finding Aids note
content: Inventory available in repository.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs collected by John C. Calhoun Newton during his tenure as a Methodist missionary in Japan. They include images of a stupa at the Toji temple ground, a bell at the Chion-in temple, and scroll paintings depicting the Buddha, Seisho-ko (General Kato Kiyomasa), Shinto gods based on Buddhist deities, Buddhist disciples, and part of a text containing Buddha's last instructions. The original envelopes for the photograph cards, including name and address of print shop owner Okazaki Kazutada of Kyoto, are also available with the collection.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs donated by Newton in 1894 can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 97.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The William R. Perkins Library at Duke University holds Newton's papers from 1870-1931.