“Japanese Red Cross Orderlies Carrying a Wounded Russian to the Hospital,” reads the caption for a 6- by 9-inch photograph in which two smallish Japanese men in uniform figure prominently, holding the front and back ends of a stretcher on which the injured Russian soldier in question rests. The midday sun must be shining bright on the patient, as he blocks his eyes with his left hand to protect them from blindness. His large body is curled up on the stretcher, covered with a dark blanket except for the lower half of his legs, which are exposed. The Japanese Red Cross orderly at the back end of the stretcher gazes into the distance, while the one at the front end slightly turns his head toward the camera, showing a faint smile on his face. This photo was taken by a war correspondent reporting for Collier’s, an American weekly magazine, in the aftermath of the Battle of Yalu River, the first major combat to take place in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905). This was one of several dozen photos that Collier’s reproduced in its large-format commemorative photographic book, The Russo-Japanese War: A Photographic and Descriptive Review of the Great Conflict in the Far East (Davis et al. 1905), to showcase the “unique value and the comprehensive extent of Collier’s Russo-Japanese War service.”