1923 Panorama, Yokohama, Japan Earthquake Damage

The devastated urban district immediately following the earthquake disaster
Title: The devastated urban district immediately following the earthquake disaster
Related Names:
Yokohama-shi (Japan) , distributor
G.T. Sun Co. , photographer
Date Created/Published: 1923 September.
Notes:
Album entitled: 'Yokohama Reconstructed, 1929'.
Panorama is photo no. 25 in album, on last page.
Accompanying caption reads: 'The great earthquake of the 1st Sept., 1923 which swept its ways through the Kwanto district in a brief moment, played its wrathful havoc to the extremity in Yokohama city, laying waste nearly 90% of the whole city and burning to ashes the entire properties of the whole citizens, founded and accumulated in 60 over long years of toil and hardship. It did away with all the cultural establishments and organisations of the prospering city to complete destruction, leaving only a barren and desolate area with its crumbling remains. The photograph here from the hill of Minami-Ohtamachi shows the actual state of the city immediately after the catastrophe.'
Photographer's address: Ginza, Tokyo, Japan.
Transfer; U.S. Coordinator of Information; January 31, 1950.
Subjects:
Earthquakes.
Fires.
Japan--Yokohama.
Gelatin silver prints.
Panoramic photographs.
Bookmark /2007664607/
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