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1. 1758.b.6(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
1758.b.6(9)
Title:
After the storm. Photographer: Thompson, Stephen
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a large tree, broken off near the base in a storm, with a woodsman standing beside it.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1875
Extent:
1 item

2. 1787.d.13, 2(34)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.13, 2(34)
Title:
Mouth of Wady Aleyat, with debris of Great Flood. Photographer: McDonald, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the bed of the wadi towards the mountains, with debris littering the foreground. The flood here referred to, took place on 3 December 1867, 'the worst in the memory of any living Arab' (part I, p. 29). For another copy of this photograph, see the...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868-1869
Extent:
1 item

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

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