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Collapsed Minami Branch of Nishi Fire Station

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ID Code YMATSUSHIGE0004
Title Collapsed Minami Branch of Nishi Fire Station
Photographer Yoshito Matsushige
Date Around 2 p.m., August 6, 1945
Location Midori-machi
Distance from hypocenter 2800meters
Existence of phorographic nagatives Yes
Owner Chugoku Shimbun
Custodian ​The Photo Archives of Japan
Description The view from the destroyed window of the home-cum-barbershop looking east. The Minami Branch of the Nishi Fire Station, a two-story wooden structure, collapsed in the blast and was reduced to rubble. A man in a national defense uniform walks toward Miyuki Bridge along the street on which ran the Ujina Line streetcars.
Record of publication in literature, exhibition Listed in the Archives for the Historical Photographic Plates and Films by Japanese professional photographers at the Photo Archives of Japan, Photo collection Moment of destruction of Hiroshima
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