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ID Code | TKAWAMOTO0008 |
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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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