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Russia and Japanese peace envoys in session. Portsmouth Navy Yard, 1905

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Russia and Japanese peace envoys in session. Portsmouth Navy Yard, 1905

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Photograph shows envoys seated around a table, left to right: Sato; Takahira; Komura; Otchai; Adachi; Korostovetz; De Rosen; Witte; Navohoff; and Plancon.

On image: Copyright 1905 Nat'l. Press Association.
Postcard sent by newspaper correspondent Edmund Noble to his daughter, Lilly. Text reads: Hotel, Portsmouth. Aug. 25, 1905. Dear Lilly, My stock of postcards is being exhausted. I hardly know whether you have received this before. You will find little news in what I send. More when I reach home. Trust you are improving. With love, Papa.

The Siege and Battle of Port Arthur marked the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War. Porth Artur was the deep-water port and Russian naval base at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria. Port Arthur was widely regarded as one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world at the time. It was the longest and most violent land battle of the Russo-Japanese War. Russian land forces in the course of the siege suffered 31,000 casualties, of whom 15,000 were killed, wounded, and missing.

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01/01/1905
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Noble, Edmund, 1853-1937, correspondent
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