Russo-Japanese Peace at Portsmouth
“The Portsmouth Navy Yard, New Hampshire, September 5, 1905. Witte and Komura sign the peace treaty in a paneled wardroom under Theodore Roosevelt's auspices. Foreground shows the two delegations signing parchment with steel-nibbed pens; midground reveals American observers in dark suits and a clerk passing blotting paper; through the window, the Piscataqua River shines under a New England late-summer sun.”
