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Description
The postcard reads, 'The historical hotel Wentworth, New Castle, N.H. Residing place of the Russia and Japanese Peace Commission.' Today this resort is called Wentworth By The Sea. In September 1905 the Russian and Japanese envoys met at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard at the invitation of President Theodore Roosevelt to work out a peace agreement after the hostilities of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905.
About This Item
- Title: Hotel at Wentworth, New Castle, New Hampshire, 1905
- Creation Date: 1905
- Subject Date: 1905
- Location: New Castle, Rockingham County, NH
- Media: Postcard
- Local Code: Coll. 562
- Collection: Kittery Naval Yard photographs
- Object Type: Text and Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Japan. Treaties, etc. Russia, 1905 Sept. 5
- Peace treaties
- Resorts--New Hampshire--Postcards
- Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
- Wentworth By The Sea--1900-1910--Postcards
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