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ID Code | TFUKADA0001 |
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Title | Mushroom cloud |
Photographer | Toshio Fukada |
Date | On August 6, 1945 |
Location | Kasumi-cho, Hiroshima Army Ordnance Supply Depot |
Distance from hypocenter | 2700meters |
Existence of phorographic nagatives | Yes |
Owner | Hiroshima City |
Custodian | Film stored at Japan Photo Archive Custodian: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum |
Description | Toshio Fukada, then 16 years old and who had been mobilized to the Hiroshima Army Ordinance Supply Depot, ran upstairs to the second floor of Weapons Arsenal No. 2 after being hit by the bomb's blast; he took photos from the window looking northwest with the camera he was carrying, called Baby Pearl. This is the first of the four photos he took in a row. |
Record of publication in literature, exhibition | Listed in Peace Database of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, On display at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum's Main Building, Listed in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum Collection Catalogue, Listed in photographic negative database of Japan Photo Archive, Photo collection Moment of destruction of Hiroshima |
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