The Snapshots in Time Collection
Gallery: Part 1
Pages from an American serviceman's personal album document Hiroshima after the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945, pairing photographs of gutted concrete ruins and the Atomic Bomb Dome with the handwritten caption cards that identified them. These firsthand annotations turn anonymous images of devastation into a dated, located record of the occupation period.
Ruined Concrete Building and Rubble Field, Hiroshima, Postwar Occupation
Panoramic View of Hiroshima's Destruction from an Elevated Vantage Point
Handwritten Caption Slip: "The Bomb Went Off Right Above the Center of This Picture" — Hiroshima Photo Album, WWII Era
Verso Caption: 'The 4th Hospital That's Still Left' — Hiroshima Photo Album
Devastated Cemetery with Stripped Tree and Surviving Building, Hiroshima
Handwritten Caption Card: "Graveyard Near the Center of the Blast" — Hiroshima Photo Album
Panoramic View of Hiroshima Cityscape and River Embankment, Postwar Period
Verso Caption: 'Looking West From the Building... Center of the Blast' — Hiroshima Photo Album
Group Portrait at Damaged Church Gate, Hiroshima, Postwar Occupation
Verso Caption: 'In Front of What Was Once the Church... Our Skipper' — Hiroshima Photo Album
Aerial View of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (Genbaku/A-Bomb Dome) Amid Post-Atomic Bomb Devastation, Hiroshima, Japan
Verso Caption: 'One of the Few Concrete Structures Still Standing' — Hiroshima Photo Album
U.S. Navy Officers and Civilian at Improvised Corrugated-Metal Structure, Occupied Hiroshima, Japan
Verso Caption: 'I Took This One... Shack Where 2 Fathers Live... Ate Lunch Here' — Hiroshima Photo Album
Devastated Cityscape with Reconstruction Timber, Hiroshima, Japan, Post-Atomic Bombing
Elevated View of Hiroshima City and River, Japan
Handwritten Caption Card — 'Same View Looking West, Showing Blown Out Building Windows,' Hiroshima Photo Album
U.S. Officers Amid Bomb-Damaged Ruins, Hiroshima, Japan, 1945
Handwritten Caption Note Describing a Damaged Library and Personnel, Hiroshima Album
Japanese Fishing Boats and Crew in Harbor, Hiroshima Area, Japan, Post-WWII
Handwritten Caption Note: Japanese Fishermen Hauling Nets, Hiroshima Album
Panoramic View of Hiroshima Ruins Along Riverfront, Japan, Post-Atomic Bombing
Group Portrait of U.S. Navy Officers Beside a Jeep, Japan, Occupation Period
Elevated View of Hiroshima City and River from Ruined Building, Post-Atomic Bombing
Devastated Landscape with Scorched Tree, Hiroshima, Japan
Destroyed Structure and Blasted Palm Trees on Pacific Atoll, WWII Combat Aftermath (Photo No. 909-13)
Panoramic View of Hiroshima Ruins with Surviving Buildings and Mountain Backdrop, Japan, Post-Atomic Bombing
Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall (Atomic Bomb Dome) Viewed Across the Motoyasu River, Post-Bombing
Street View of Ruined District with Torii Gate and Lone Pedestrian, Hiroshima, Japan, Post-Atomic Bombing
Group Portrait of an American Logging or Mining Crew Outside a Timber Building, c. 1890s-1910s
Japanese Laborers Constructing a Wooden Boat Frame, Coastal Village Setting (Altered/Enhanced Scan)
Japanese Laborers Constructing a Wooden Boat Frame, Coastal Village Setting
Hand-Tinted Portrait of a Buddhist Monk in Ceremonial Robes, Japan