This copper-plate print from October 1883 of a street lined with prominent merchant homes gives life to pre-war Hiroshima. Hidesaburo Iwase, who owned the print, died in the atomic bombing. Some years later, his remains were identified in the Atomic Bomb Memorial Mound and returned to his family.
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