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From the rooftop of the Chugoku Shimbun new building looking west

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ID Code SHAYASHI0027
Title From the rooftop of the Chugoku Shimbun new building looking west
Photographer Shigeo Hayashi
Date Between October 1 and 10, 1945
Location Kaminagarekawa-cho
Distance from hypocenter 870meters
Existence of phorographic nagatives Yes
Owner Hiroshima City
Custodian Film stored at Japan Photo Archive / Custodian: Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Description The Hiroshima Electric Railway's street car tracks run in the center of the frame. A destroyed street car (No. 421 or No. 430) can be seen on the right side of the tracks. In the middle are Fukuya Department Store and Fukuya Department Store's old building. From the left rear, the head office of Geibi Bank, the outer moat of the ruins of Hiroshima Castle, the West Drill Ground, and Motomachi workplace of the Hiroshima city waterworks department. The burned areas are, from the foreground: Teppo-cho, Hatchobori, and Motomachi.
Record of publication in literature, exhibition Listed in Peace Database of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
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