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Archive Reference (shelfmark) 1824.b.5 Language Not applicable Subject Earthquakes

1. 1824.b.5(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(1)
Title:
Biwajima [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:
View of ruined houses: '...We visited one of the suburbs of Nagoya called Biwajima, which is practically one long street running from near the castle across flat ground towards the river. It is no exaggeration to say that the destruction was complete. The houses some tiled and some with thatch h...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

2. 1824.b.5(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(2)
Title:
Life after the earthquake. Photographer: Aoyama, S.
Scope & Content:
View of families in temporary shelters: 'A koya is a temporary structure used as a dwelling...The koya in the Earthquake district were constructed of straw mats, pieces of cloth, fragments of paper screens, broken boards and any other suitable thing that could be gathered from the ruins...The pi...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

3. 1824.b.5(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(3)
Title:
Embankment of Biwajima River [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:
'The greatest destruction has taken place along and near the river banks, which being unsupported on one side, by their momentum have been shot forward, much in the same way that the last of a series of railway waggons is shot forward when a locomotive bumps against the other end. The fracture s...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

4. 1824.b.5(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(4)
Title:
Koya on embankment of Biwajima River [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:
Showing temporary shelters on the river bank.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

5. 1824.b.5(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(5)
Title:
Biwajima Bridge [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:
'The Biwajima-bashi, a wide wooden carriage built across the Shonaigawa, was completely wrecked. It lies in the bed of the river in a curious serpent-like twisted form. The river is very low, and the continuity of the bridge was nowhere actually broken, so it was possible to walk across, though ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

6. 1824.b.5(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(6)
Title:
Nagoya spinning mill [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

7. 1824.b.5(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(7)
Title:
Nagoya Spinning Mill [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

8. 1824.b.5(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(8)
Title:
Life after the earthquake. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:
'Here we have a temporary hut or koya in the foreground, whilst behind there is a sea of broken tiles; all that was consumable having been destroyed by fire.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

9. 1824.b.5(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(9)
Title:
Road from Nagoya to Gifu [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:
'The road from Nagoya to Gifu is a series of villages, one running into the next, as is so common in this country; that is to say it is—or rather was—a nearly continuous street of more than twenty-five miles in length. Now, November 3rd 1891, Gifu, except in a few places, is simply a narrow lane...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

10. 1824.b.5(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(10)
Title:
Twisted railway line and Kisogawa railway bridge after the earthquake. Photographer: Miyashita
Scope & Content:
Two images, each approximately 145x190mm.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

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