Alice Roosevelt is carried through the streets of Seoul in an Imperial sedan chair...

Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) eldest daughter of Theodore Roosevelt ( 26th President of the United States of America 1901-09) accompanied the U.S. Congressional delegation to the Far East on a tour of Japan, the Philippines, China and Korea; Miss Roosevelt was called 'Princess Alice' by the international press during her trip; mission led by U.S. Secretary of War, William Howard Taft (later 27th President of the USA 1909-13) and was the largest diplomatic mission in American history with 23 Congressmen and seven Senators and was known as the 'Imperial Cruise'; apart from being a 'goodwill' visit connected with President Roosevelt's mediation to establish peace and end the Russo-Japanese War, one of the covert purposes of the mission was to establish a U.S. pact of cooperation with Japan, by which the U.S. agreed to Japanese suzerainty over Korea in return for Japan's indication that it had no 'aggressive designs on the Philippines'; this later led to the annexation of Korea by Japan in 1910;'Miss Roosevelt se rendant chez l'Empereur de Corée'; Gojong (1852-1919) Emperor Gwangmu, twenty-sixth King of the Joseon dynasty and first Emperor of Korea (1897-1907);