Object Details
Creator
Kobe Picture Postcard Club
Names
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Collection Collector
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt, 1884-1980
Collection Creator
McIntosh, Burr, 1862-1942
Collection Citation
The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia, FSA A2009.02. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Scope and Contents
Pictures postcards, roughly half created individually, addressed to the American president, likely delivered to his daughter Alice Roosevedlt when she visited Japan in 1905. The backs of the postcards all have an identical stamp of the Kobe Picture Postcard Club. Most of the postcards have individual names and addresses of senders, as well as messages of congratulation and appreciation to the president during or after the Portsmouth Conference, in which he oversaw peace talks following the Russo-Japanese War.
神戸絵葉書倶楽部
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Local Numbers
FSA A2009.02 13
Place
Kobe-shi (Japan)
Japan
Topic
Diplomacy
Travel
Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Creator
Kobe Picture Postcard Club
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The Alice Roosevelt Longworth Collection of Photographs from the 1905 Taft Mission to Asia
Biographical / Historical
Alice Roosevelt visited Japan in June as a member of the William H. Taft Mission to Asia, and travelled throughJapan again on her return from Korea in October.
Extent
73 Postcards
Archival Repository
National Museum of Asian Art Archives
Identifier
FSA.A2009.02, File FSA A2009.02 13
Type
Archival materials
Postcards
Collection Rights
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
Genre/Form
Postcards
Collection Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
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Record ID
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