This panoramic view, taken from a riverside embankment, looks out over Hiroshima toward the surrounding mountains. The dense scatter of small, simple structures visible across the river suggests this photograph was taken as residents began the slow process of rebuilding amid the ruins left by the atomic bombing of August 6, 1945. Images such as this document both the natural setting of the city and the resilience of its people in the years following the war. Project: 218248