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ID Code | KHAYASHI0005 |
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Title | Looking west from the rooftop of the new Fukuya Department Store building |
Photographer | Kazuma Hayashi |
Date | Fall of 1945 |
Location | Rooftop of the new building of the Fukuya Department Store、Ebisu-cho |
Distance from hypocenter | 710meters |
Existence of phorographic nagatives | No |
Owner | Hiroshima City |
Custodian | Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum |
Description | Looking west toward from the rooftop of the new Fukuya Department Store building. The building in the foreground is the Hiroshima branch of the Shoko Chukin Bank; to the upper right, the wreckage of the steel frame of the Motomachi Town Hall Workroom of the City Water Department; on the shoulder of the road in front of it, the wreckage of a 400-class train (possibly No. 430) can be seen. From back far left, Yasuda Seimei Life Insurance Company, Fuel Hall, Sumitomo Bank Hiroshima Branch, Geibi Bank Head Office, Chiyoda Seimei Life Insurance Company, Atomic Bomb Dome (former Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall), and the Hiroshima chapter of the Japanese Red Cross Society can be seen. The Hiroshima Prefectural Association can be seen across the street with streetcar tracks. |
Record of publication in literature, exhibition | Listed in Peace Database of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Photo collection Moment of destruction of Hiroshima |
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