Object Details
- Local Numbers
- FSA A2009.02 13
- 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
- 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
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A2009.02, File FSA A2009.02 13
- Type
- Archival materials
- Postcards
- 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.
- Collection Rights
- Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository.
- Genre/Form
- Postcards
- 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
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1585222321438-1585222321561-4
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