This postcard stood out to me for several reasons. After initial defeats to the Japanese, Russian reinforcements arrived in the form of Russia’s Baltic fleet, having sailed over 20,000 nautical miles. However, despite sailing at night to avoid detection, the … Read more

The Japanese Tiger faces off against the Russian Bear. The image depicts the facing off of these two empires and thus fighting to the death. The background shows a variety of figures watching off as if this was a prize … Read more

The Postcard is a satire of the sinking of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur by the Japanese. Russia is portrayed as a huge figure in comparison to the small Japanese man, showing the difference in power between one of … Read more

  This card depicts Marshal Oyama’s entry into Mukden. Ōyama Iwao was one of the founders of the Imperial Japanese Army. In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905 he was appointed the Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese armies in Manchuria. He personally … Read more

In looking into the effects of Darwin’s ideas on Russian society and culture, I found that Darwin’s ideas were met with much less resistance in Russia, than in Europe. Further, public opposition to Darwinism took much longer to appear in … Read more

The contrast between the color background and the black and white images is striking. The black and white images detail tents erected in war camps to provide soldiers a space to read newspapers. The color background is an illustrated scene … Read more

        Postcard A     Postcard B   Postcard A: Our Infantry Fighting on the River Hun; Our Look-out Erected on a Snow-clad Tree Information: Russo-Japanese War Battlefield Commemoration Series 戦役記念. This card was one of three in … Read more

Pictured above is a postcard kept in the East Asia Image Collection at Lafayette University. The attached images depict the front and back of the postcard, respectively. The title of the postcard is “War Against Russia”. I, of course, cannot … Read more

This French postcard by Mille showing the attack of the “Japanese tiger” on the leaders of Europe is actually part of a five-piece collection that put together makes up a little pictorial narrative of the war.  The historical context for … Read more

In this German postcard, we can see a map of Korea and Manchuria, the main battlefields of the war. The Russian bear, with a French cap hanging on its stubby tail, attacks a woman representing Japan. She is advertising Korea … Read more