<p src=Alice Roosevelt entering the Forbidden City, 1905
Beijing
Photograph by Henry Fowler Woods
Courtesy of Henry Fowler Woods, Photograph Albums of a Diplomatic Mission to Asia and Travel to Burma, India, Egypt, and Greece, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, GEN MSS 653 Box 6

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Alice Roosevelt entering the Forbidden City, 1905
Beijing
Photograph by Henry Fowler Woods
Courtesy of Henry Fowler Woods, Photograph Albums of a Diplomatic Mission to Asia and Travel to Burma, India, Egypt, and Greece, General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, GEN MSS 653 Box 6

<p src=“Great White Fleet” cup, 1908
Xiamen, Fujian Province
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LOT 10966, Location F

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“Great White Fleet” cup, 1908
Xiamen, Fujian Province
Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LOT 10966, Location F

In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt sent his daughter Alice and Secretary of War William Howard Taft on a goodwill tour of Asia. While in Beijing, Alice met Empress Dowager Cixi, who gave her a Pekingese dog and a photograph of herself. This trip was seen as an important step in reaffirming relations between the two countries. In 1908, the “Great White Fleet,” comprised of sixteen new American battleships sent around the world by President Roosevelt, arrived in Amoy (Xiamen).

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