TEEN ROMANCE IN THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR - “DEAREST TOTOCHKA! . . . 10,000 OF KISSES.” A high school sophomore’s archive of photographs and mementos from her romantic relationship with an officer from a Russian warship, the Lena, that violated U.S. neutrality during the Russo-Japanese War by docking at San Francisco
Vladivostock, Russia, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Vallejo, California: Mostly 1904-1905. Various. The vernacular photographs in this archive, most of which were taken by Teresa M. Browne, a high school sophomore who would not graduate from Vallejo High until 1907, document the Russian Cruiser Lena’s stay in San Francisco. Its two letters..... More
