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Headquarters of the Hiroshima Gas Company

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ID Code TKAWAMOTO0008
Title Headquarters of the Hiroshima Gas Company
Photographer Toshio Kawamoto
Date Around the end of 1945
Location Ote-machi
Distance from hypocenter 260meters
Existence of phorographic nagatives No
Owner Hiroshima City
Custodian Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Description Looking from south to north. The northeast side of the building, to the right in the photo, collapsed from the third to the first floors, leaving only the entrance hall whose round columns support the balcony. The left side of the building appears to have suffered little damage. The whitish stretch running from right to left in front of the building is Ote-machi Street.
Record of publication in literature, exhibition Listed in the “Peace Database” of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum website,The photo collection “The Moment of Hiroshima’s Destruction”
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