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Looking northwest from the burnt ruins of the Mainichi Newspapers Hiroshima branch office

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ID Code YKUNIHIRA0004
Title Looking northwest from the burnt ruins of the Mainichi Newspapers Hiroshima branch office
Photographer Yukio Kunihira
Date On August 9, 1945
Location Ote-machi
Distance from hypocenter 290meters
Existence of phorographic nagatives Yes
Owner Mainichi Newspapers
Custodian Mainichi Newspapers,Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Description Looking northwest from the burnt ruins of the Mainichi Newspapers Hiroshima branch office (built of wood; located at 3-39 Ote-machi, now 2-5 Ote-machi) on Ote-machi Street. The Fuel Hall (now Peace Memorial Park Rest House) is in the left of center; on the far right is the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (now the Atomic Bomb Dome) and part of the Hiroshima Prefecture Commerce and Industry Association (now the Hiroshima Chamber of Commerce and Industry).
Record of publication in literature, exhibition On permanent exhibit at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
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