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Description
The General Stores building at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N.H. was the meeting place of the Russian and Japanese Peace Commission in 1905. On Sept. 5, 1905 the Russian and Japanese Peace delegations signed a peace treaty to end hostilities of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905. The negotiations took place at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine at the invitation of President Theodore Roosevelt. This is part of the Susan Ricker Knox Collection.
About This Item
- Title: Meeting place, Russian and Japanese Peace Commission, 1905
- Creation Date: 1905
- Subject Date: 1905
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Locations:
- Shipyard, Kittery, York County, ME
- Shipyard, Portsmouth, NH
- Media: Postcard
- Dimensions: 10 cm x 14 cm
- Local Code: Coll. 562
- Collection: Kittery Naval Yard photographs
- Object Type: Text and Image
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- Japan. Treaties, etc. Rusia, 1905 Sept. 5--Postcards
- Peace treaties
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (U.S.)--Postcards
- Portsmouth Navy Yard
- Presidents--United States
- Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
- United States. Navy. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
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Maine Historical Society485 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822 x230
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