Working for Peace-President Roosevelt and Envoys of Mikado and Czar on the Mayflower
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Underwood & Underwood
American, 1880–1931
Working for Peace-President Roosevelt and Envoys of Mikado and Czar on the Mayflower
August 5, 1905
Gelatin silver print
8.2 x 15.1 cm., ensemble (domed))
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company
Inscriptions recto-(printed):
Working for Peace-President Roosevelt and Envoys of Mikado and Czar on the Mayflower, copyright 1905 by Underwood & Underwood U-83161
Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, New York, London, Toronto Canada, Ottawa Kansas / Works and studios Arlington, N.J. / Westwood N.J.
verso-(printed):
This is a great day in world history. It is Aug. 5, 1905, on board the President's yacht "Mayflower", off Oyster Bay. From left ot right are Count Serge Witte, Russia's Chief Peace Envoy, Baron Rosen, his associate, Baron Komura, Japan’s Chief Envoy, and Minister Takahira, his associate. Since Feb. 8, 1904, when war began, 1,540,000 men have fought; 625,000 men killed or wounded, $1, 550,000,000 of property destroyed, In June, 1905, the President addressed Russia and Japan, urging that there might be a meeting of Japanese and Russian peace delegates. On this day, they have met. The President has just offered a toast: "I drink to the welfare and prosperity of the sovereigns and peoples of the two great nations whose representatives have met one another on this ship. It is my most earnest hope and prayer in the interest not only of those two great powers but of all civilized mankind, that a just and lasting peace may speedily be concluded between them."
September 5, one month after this meeting, the Treaty of Portsmouth closed the most terrible war of modern times. The world's praise of the President was such as no other man ever heard from his contemporaries.
"Never will it be given to a man to undertake a task of greater magnitude, to traverse a path beset with greater difficulties....He has triumphed. He has reaped a reward beyond the possibility of calculation. He has sheathed the swords of a million men. For that he will have monuments hereafter."(Brooklyn Eagle)
"The whole of mankind must unite and will do so in thanking you for the great boon you have given it.”(Emperor William)
"This is the happiest news of my life. Thank God for President Roosevelt's courage." (Pope Pius X)
From notes of Travel No. 30, copyright 1905, by Underwood & Underwood.
Biographical summary reprinted from publishers
guidebook, (stamped) "Fresno County Free Library"
Working for Peace-President Roosevelt and Envoys of Mikado and Czar on the Mayflower, copyright 1905 by Underwood & Underwood U-83161
Underwood & Underwood, Publishers, New York, London, Toronto Canada, Ottawa Kansas / Works and studios Arlington, N.J. / Westwood N.J.
verso-(printed):
This is a great day in world history. It is Aug. 5, 1905, on board the President's yacht "Mayflower", off Oyster Bay. From left ot right are Count Serge Witte, Russia's Chief Peace Envoy, Baron Rosen, his associate, Baron Komura, Japan’s Chief Envoy, and Minister Takahira, his associate. Since Feb. 8, 1904, when war began, 1,540,000 men have fought; 625,000 men killed or wounded, $1, 550,000,000 of property destroyed, In June, 1905, the President addressed Russia and Japan, urging that there might be a meeting of Japanese and Russian peace delegates. On this day, they have met. The President has just offered a toast: "I drink to the welfare and prosperity of the sovereigns and peoples of the two great nations whose representatives have met one another on this ship. It is my most earnest hope and prayer in the interest not only of those two great powers but of all civilized mankind, that a just and lasting peace may speedily be concluded between them."
September 5, one month after this meeting, the Treaty of Portsmouth closed the most terrible war of modern times. The world's praise of the President was such as no other man ever heard from his contemporaries.
"Never will it be given to a man to undertake a task of greater magnitude, to traverse a path beset with greater difficulties....He has triumphed. He has reaped a reward beyond the possibility of calculation. He has sheathed the swords of a million men. For that he will have monuments hereafter."(Brooklyn Eagle)
"The whole of mankind must unite and will do so in thanking you for the great boon you have given it.”(Emperor William)
"This is the happiest news of my life. Thank God for President Roosevelt's courage." (Pope Pius X)
From notes of Travel No. 30, copyright 1905, by Underwood & Underwood.
Biographical summary reprinted from publishers
guidebook, (stamped) "Fresno County Free Library"
