The Snapshots in Time Collection

Snow-Covered Grounds with Lattice Tower, Long Institutional Building, and Weather Instrument Shelters

Snow-Covered Grounds with Lattice Tower, Long Institutional Building, and Weather Instrument Shelters

This photograph shows a long institutional building topped with a tall lattice tower, surrounded by snow and dotted with small weather-observation instrument shelters. Likely documenting a meteorological or military communications station in postwar Japan, the image reflects the infrastructure encountered and photographed by Allied personnel during the occupation period. Project: 218164