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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 91401

Great Kanto Earthquake, September 1923


An Asiatic Fleet search party attempts to identify newly located bodies by glasses and rings, in the wreckage of the U.S. Naval Hospital at Yokohama, Japan, after the earthquake.
Note twisted beds in the foreground.

Collection of Henry J. Poy.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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16 November 2004