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Card, Business

Object Name:
Card, Business
Object ID:
2004.043.235.2
Date:
1905
Description:
Business cards used by Japanese newspaper correspondents at signing of Portsmouth Peace Treaty, Portsmouth, NH, 1905. Four printed cards adhered to one sheet of paper.

1. Kaju Nakamura, editor of the Japanese American Commercial Weekly and correspondent for the Kagoshima Industrial Daily, New York.
2. Kiyohsi K. Kawakami, representing the Daily Yorodzu and the Daily Asahi, Tokyo.
3. Yuichi Masaoka, special correspondent for the Yamato Shimbun, Tokyo.
4. M. Fukutomi, correspondent for the Osaka Asahi Shimbun, Osaka.

Pencil inscription on back of sheet: "Russian Japanese Treaty of Portsmouth, 1905. Delegates and reporters at Wentworth Hotel in New Castle. These were some of the Japanese correspondents present."
Material:
Paper
Dimensions:
H-5.6 W-4 inches
Provenance:
From collection of Dr. Dorothy M. Vaughan (1904-2004), preservationist and collector of Portsmouth, N.H., artifacts.

Used by Japanese newspaper correspondents at signing of Portsmouth Peace Treaty, 1905.
Credit Line:
Bequest of Dr. Dorothy Mansfield Vaughan
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