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21. 1824.b.5(13)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(13)
Title:
Imperial University Hospital [at Kuroda]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:
'At Kuroda for the first time we saw hospital work—hospital if it can be called, it being merely a space of ground with curtains stretched around it on bamboo posts, so that the whole world might not look on, and one or two mats within the inclosure. There was nothing whatever in the way of furn...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

22. 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

23. 1824.b.5(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(14)
Title:
Imperial University Hospital [at Kuroda, after the earthquake]. Photographer: Nakamura
Scope & Content:
'Although the Earthquake took place early in the morning of the 28th [November], it was not until the 30th that the real nature of the disaster was realized, and then doctors were dispatched from all sides...In the University Hospital—constructed out of, and upon, the ruins of fallen houses—Dr. ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

24. 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

25. 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

26. 1824.b.5(19)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(19)
Title:
Bridge in Neo Valley [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:
1Here we have a scene in the famous Neo Valley, where the disturbance was practically at its maximum. In some places the ground has sunk, and at others risen, and the people say that the mountains themselves have been depressed, so that from certain points hills formerly invisible now raise up t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

27. 1824.b.5(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(23)
Title:
Nagara Gawa railway bridge [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:
'In this picture we see the broken cast iron piers lying on the dry shingly bed of the river, like peieces of a huge carrot, and also that the original line of the bridge has, in its central part, been deflected up stream...'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

28. 1824.b.5(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(25)
Title:
Aprroach to Nagara Gawa railway bridge [after the earthquake]. Photographer: Ogawa Kazuma
Scope & Content:
'The embanked approach to the Nagara Gawa bridge has been thrown into a regular series of undulations of such extent that, looking along the line eastward from the eastern abutment, the appearance is almost that of looking along a switch-back railway!'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

29. 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

30. 1824.b.5(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
1824.b.5(21)
Title:
In the Neo Valley [near Itashu, Neodani, after the earthquake]. Photographer: Kusakabe Kimbei
Scope & Content:
'At one place a group of four or five houses has completely sunk into the earth. The ground where they rest has been depressed, for a small distance around them, to a depth of about 15 feet, the sides of the depression being quite abrupt, but the strangest thing of all is that the houses seem to...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1891
Extent:
1 item

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