Hiroshima, Japan [014] Stone Lantern (001)

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Title Hiroshima, Japan [014] Stone Lantern (001)
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 29, Japan, Hiroshima, 3
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1965
Subject Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment,--1945- -Photographs; Stone lanterns--Japan--Hiroshima--Photographs; Stone bridges--Japan--Hiroshima--Photographs; Gardens, Japanese--Japan--Hiroshima--Photographs; Weapons of mass destruction--Japan--Hiroshima--Photographs; Nuclear weapons--Japan--Hiroshima--Photographs; Japan; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Gardens; Nuclear weapons
Spatial Coverage Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Description Photograph of a stone lantern (possibly showing damage from 1945 atomic bomb blast?), Hiroshima, Japan
Caption on Slide Stone lantern, Hiroshima, Japan.
Additional Information Image was scanned from color slide. Note: Hiroshima (Hiroshima-shi) is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture, and the largest city in the Chūgoku region of western Honshu, the largest island of Japan. It is best known as the first city in history to be targeted by a nuclear weapon when the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped an atomic bomb on it at 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, near the end of World War II.--Wikipedia. Note: Possibly same lantern (at same location) as image with file name: japan_china_r_028.
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
Rights Management This material may be protected by copyright. Permission required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Multimedia Archivist, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah.
ARK ark:/87278/s6kw5z24
Digitization Specifications Original scanned on Nikon Coolscan 5000 and saved as 2700 ppi TIFF. Display image generated in CONTENTdm as JP2000.
Donor Lennox Tierney; Catherine Tierney
Setname uum_lctpc
ID 331915
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6kw5z24
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