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The Battle of the Somme, July-november 1916 Q4035

[Inside a Russian fort during the siege - shell marks around a dummy gun - Port Arthur]

Portrait photo of Pilʹshchiki na Sviri. [Rossiĭskai︠a︡ imperii︠a︡]

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[The heroine of Port Arthur -- the only woman soldier, killed here a few hours later]

Haritena Korotkiewich

[A sentinel over the dead -- guarding comrades who died defending Russian forts -- Port Arthur]

[A warship on its side at a quay, Port Arthur]

[Hasty funeral rites - last honors to the dead Russian heroes - in besieged Port Arthur]

[Bodies of Russian soldiers awaiting burial, Port Arthur]

[Sunken warships, Port Arthur] - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

[Desolation of the terrible siege - from wrecked home looking over doomed harbor - Port Arthur]

[After a fierce assault -- every man killed -- looking from Russian fort, Port Arthur]

[The heroine of Port Arthur -- the only woman soldier, killed here a few hours later]

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H63423 U.S. Copyright Office.

Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, July 18, 1905.

Title from published stereograph, no. 7733.

The Siege and Battle of Port Arthur marked the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War. Porth Artur was the deep-water port and Russian naval base at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula in Manchuria. Port Arthur was widely regarded as one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world at the time. It was the longest and most violent land battle of the Russo-Japanese War. Russian land forces in the course of the siege suffered 31,000 casualties, of whom 15,000 were killed, wounded, and missing.

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russo japanese war campaigns and battles china lushun women military service forts and fortifications russian photographic prints stereographs heroine the heroine port arthur woman soldier woman soldier hours later history of japan russian empire port arthur russia manchuria stereoscopic views japanese army history of russia lot 3372 underwood and underwood photo library of congress imperial russian army
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01/01/1905
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Russo-Japanese War. Port Arthur.

Siege and Battle of Port Arthur, 1904-1905
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U.S. Army Pvt. Christian Dejesus, a Cargo Specialist

Army National Guardsmen from Columbia, Missouri have been working nearly twenty four hours a day to protect small businesses. An extensive sandbagging and pumping operation are ongoing along the rear of a pawn, trophy and other small business shops

Horse-drawn sledge in gateway of Manchu house across Amur river from Blagovestchenck [i.e. Blagoveshchensk]

U.S. Army Soldiers from the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade,

1904-09-08 front Japanese arranging decoy lights (1)

American Red Cross - Groups - Ambulance drivers, Louis Goldman (left) and Roy L. Yelverton both of New York worked eighty hours without sleep carrying the American woudned from the battle front to the American base hospital at Neully

Surinamers demonstreren op het Binnenhof tegen de verstrekking van methadon aan heroineverslaafden

Reserve Boatcrew College Course

All of these are workers in the Stearns Silk Factory, Petersburg, Virginia Not all of the youngsters would get into the photo. I went through the factory during working hours and saw many others like these. A neighbor's testimony corroborated the foregoing. Noon hour. Location: Petersburg, Virginia.

[Hole made by 500 lb. Japanese shell and building wrecked by its fragments, Port Arthur]

New Britain, Connecticut. A child care center, opened September 15, 1942, for thirty children, age two to five, of mothers engaged in war industry. The hours are 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., six days per week. Dolls and buggies are the chief interests of the little girls

[Japanese and Russian soldiers at a fortified position (probably Russian), near Port Arthur]

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russo japanese war campaigns and battles china lushun women military service forts and fortifications russian photographic prints stereographs heroine the heroine port arthur woman soldier woman soldier hours later history of japan russian empire port arthur russia manchuria stereoscopic views japanese army history of russia lot 3372 underwood and underwood photo library of congress imperial russian army