Hiroshima, Japan [010] Cemeteries (002)

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Title Hiroshima, Japan [010] Cemeteries (002)
Collection Name and Number P0479 Lennox and Catherine Tierney Photo Collection
Photo Number Box 29, Japan, Hiroshima Cemetery, 6
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Date 1949
Subject Hiroshima-shi (Japan)--History--Bombardment,--1945- -Photographs; Cemeteries--Japan--Hiroshima--Photographs; Sepulchral monuments--Japan--Hiroshima--Photographs; Weapons of mass destruction--Japan--Hiroshima--Photographs; Nuclear weapons--Japan--Hiroshima--Photographs; Japan; Hiroshima-shi (Japan); Nuclear weapons; Cemeteries; Sepulchral monuments
Spatial Coverage Hiroshima-shi (Japan)
Description Photo shows a cemetery stone, split by the atomic bomb blast, Hiroshima, Japan
Caption on Slide Stone in cemetery split by the atomic bomb blast, 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.
Type Image
Creator Tierney, Lennox
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ARK ark:/87278/s6ht359p
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 331962
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6ht359p