Church-run schools

Buddhist and Catholic churches ran nursery schools attended by Japanese American children, as did neighborhood Protestant churches. In Seattle, the Maryknoll Catholic school was a prominent institution in the community.

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img Japanese Methodist Episcopal kindergarten class (ddr-densho-123-5)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-123-5/

img Japanese Methodist Episcopal kindergarten class (ddr-densho-124-37)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-124-37/

img Girls group performance (ddr-densho-128-135)

This performance took place at the Maryknoll School. Back row, center is Yasuko Kubo.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-128-135/

img Green Lake Sunday School (ddr-densho-134-26)

This Sunday school was started by three missionaries from the Seattle Japanese Baptist Church in the early 1920s. Back row (L to R): Miss Rumsey, Naoshi Kumagai, Kay Suzuki, Tadashi Kumagai, unidentified, Akira Kumasaka. Middle row (L to R): Tak Nakawatase, unidentified, unidentified, May Kumasaka, Kimi Taguchi, Ko Suzuki, unidentified. Front row (L to R): Sam …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-134-26/

New Maryknoll Church Ground Will Be Broken. Bishop O'Dea Will Participate in Ceremonies; Japanese Consul Will Turn First Spade of Earth. (February 15, 1930) (ddr-densho-56-416)

doc New Maryknoll Church Ground Will Be Broken. Bishop O'Dea Will Participate in Ceremonies; Japanese Consul Will Turn First Spade of Earth. (February 15, 1930) (ddr-densho-56-416)

The Seattle Daily Times, February 15, 1930, p. 4

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-56-416/

img The Maryknoll School (ddr-densho-20-18)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-20-18/

img Japanese American school class photograph (ddr-densho-26-99)

Nursery and kindergarten Sunday School classes from Blaine Memorial Methodist Church. On the back of the photograph is a stamp "Takano Studio, Main 8186, 668 Jackson St., Seattle Wash."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-26-99/

img Sunday School class (ddr-densho-106-9)

Betty Morita Shibayama is in the back row, sixth from the right.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-106-9/

img Maryknoll School graduating 8th grade class (ddr-densho-353-264)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-264/

img Nihonmachi Jackson Street (ddr-densho-353-73)

Jackson Street, looking east from 5th Street. Note on back indicates Japanese stores in left foreground, and the Academy of Holy Names in background, built 1880. The photo was taken before the Jackson St. regrade of 1907-1909.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-353-73/