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From the rooftop of the Chugoku Shimbun new building looking east

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ID Code SHAYASHI0036
Title From the rooftop of the Chugoku Shimbun new building looking east
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 burned down Nobori-cho National Elementary School is in the left center. To its rear are Kyobashi Bridge and Kyobashi River. From the right foreground, the Hiroshima branch of Japan Kangyo Bank, Hiroshima Higashi (East) Police Station, Inarimachi train bridge and Taisho Bridge. The street running vertically is for the Hiroshima Electric Railway’s streetcar tracks. The burned areas are, from the foreground: Nagarekawa-cho, Nobori-cho, Yamaguchi-cho, Iwamiya-cho, Kanayama-cho, Shimoyanagi-cho, Hashimoto-cho, Inari-machi and so on. In the left to the rear, the road which runs diagonally is Kyobashi Street (old Sanyo road, Saigoku Kaido).
Record of publication in literature, exhibition Listed in Peace Database of Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
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