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Burned ruins of a neighborhood near the post office located in front of Hiroshima Station

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ID Code TKAWAMOTO0020
Title Burned ruins of a neighborhood near the post office located in front of Hiroshima Station
Photographer Toshio Kawamoto
Date Around the end of 1945
Location Osuga-cho
Distance from hypocenter 1700meters
Existence of phorographic nagatives No
Owner Hiroshima City
Custodian Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Description Looking northeast from burned ruins of the neighborhood near a post office in front of Hiroshima Station, 1,700 meters from the hypocenter. An Okayama Post Office tent is seen beyond the wall. The building on the right is Hiroshima Station. In the background is Mt. Onaga.
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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