019091 Accession Number: 019091

Description

Yokohama, Japan. c. 1945. Views of the havoc around the city of Yokohama. The city had been heavily bombed with incendiaries and great areas were completely burnt out. On these burnt out sites the inhabitants built tin shanties from the wreckage. Fires from our bombing had swept throughout the city and the only buildings left intact were those designed to be earthquake proof.

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Accession Number
019091
Photographer
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Date Made
c 1945
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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