Accession Number: 2009.24.16.1342-1350
Description: Nine BW prints, probably shot by Mainichi Press photographers; .1342: Dr. Milton T. Stauffer and Marjorie Stauffer smile and talk to two American military men in uniform while others look on with a building in background; captioned "Dr. and Mrs. Milton Stauffer arrive at the Beppu Station on October 12"; .1343: Japanese woman in decorative kimono ushers forward two girls wearing kimonos as they offer flowers to Dr. Milton T. Stauffer and Marjorie Stauffer; Marjorie Stauffer is leaning forward to greet the girls and is obscured; a large column is in the background; captioned "Dr. & Mrs. Milton Stauffer receive a bouquet from a girl mission at the Oita Education Hall on October 12"; .1344: Dr. Stauffer stands in the midst of a classroom full of Japanese boys sitting at desk with notebooks and pens or pencils in front of them; at left an older man leans over one boys paper; captioned "Dr. Milton Stauffer inspects the Blind and Dumb School in Oita on October 12"; .1345: Dr. Stauffer releases a dark feathered bird into the air; captioned "Dr. Stauffer releases a carrier pigeon of the Mainichi at the Blind and Dumb School in Oita on October 12 carrying a film of his visit for publication in next day's paper in Osaka"; .1346: Dr. and Mrs. Stauffer look on, with other officials, as a young man at a workbench uses a lever-like cutting tool to cut up a metal can; captioned "Dr. and Mrs. Stauffer inspect the stretching of tin cans at the Lighthouse in Oita on October 12"; .1347: Dr. & Mrs. Stauffer lean over, offering their handso a line of young Japanese girls wearing jumpers; captioned "Dr. and Mrs. Milton Stauffer offer words of consolation to the children of the Kumamoto Angel Garden on October 14"; .1348: Two young men wearing loincloths (the mawashi) crouch in the traditional starting position within a chalked ring outdoors; Dr. Milton Stauffer, weating a suit crouches above them with one hand on the back of each wrestler; spectators and a third wrestler are in the background in front of a single story building; captioned "Dr. Milton Stauffer acts as judge at Sumo-wrestling of blind students of the Kumamoto Blind and Dumb School on October 14. Boy at right is champion blind wrestler in Japan"; .1349: Dr. Milton Staffer, wearing a whilte cloak over his clothes, stands with a Japanese man similarly dressed, facing a crowd of people dressed primarily in kimonos, some carrying long bamboo canes and many with obvious facial disfigurements; a traditional Japanese structure and ornamental trees are in background; captioned "Dr. Milton Stauffer gives condolence speech to the leprosy-blind at the Kikuchi Keify Charity Garden on October 14"; .1350: Dr. & Mrs. Stauffer shake the hand of a Japanese man in a dark kimono; captioned "Dr. & Mrs. Stauffer greeted by Rev. Ryozo Ishimatsu, chairman of the Kumamoto Blind Welfare Association on October 14".
Medium: Photographic Paper
Date: 1948
History/Provenance: Helen Keller's 1948 trip to the Far East was sponsored in part by the John Milton Society. JMS General Secretary Milton T. Stauffer and his wife Marjorie joined Keller for the Japan portion of the trip. When Polly Thomson became ill and the Keller/Thomson party returned to the U.S. in early October, the Stauffers stood in for Keller and finished the tour.
Credit Line: AFB Migel Memorial Library Collection, 2009.24
Subjects: Birds Blind children Blind persons Classrooms Flowers Japan Kimonos Leprosy Metalworking Railroad stations Recycling Schools for the blind and visually impaired Schools for the blind and visually impaired Students Sumo wrestlers Vocational education Vocational guidance
