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Tokyo;Japan

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Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

Tokyo streetcar during rush-hour, June 4, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-11
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Crowded Tokyo streetcar during rush-hour with people hanging off the back doors. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Tokyo streetcar passing before Dai Ichi Building with rush-hour load of people crammed into it and hanging on outside."

Dates: June 4, 1947

Top of five-storied pagoda in Ueno Park, June 18, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-34
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Five-story pagoda of the Kan’ei-ji Temple in Ueno Park behind trees. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "The upper part of the tower shown in G33 from another point of view; this is now taken over by pigeons."

Dates: June 18, 1947

Underpass of railroad behind the Dai Iti Hotel, June 19, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-41
Scope and Contents

Underpass of a railroad track behind the Dai Iti Hotel in Tokyo. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Underpass in the main railroad, before the Dai Iti Hotel, with one of the loaded small electric trains passing overhead. Two Japanese women beside the American jeep are in kimonos whereas the younger girls behind them are in Western dress."

Dates: June 19, 1947

Vegetable garden at the National Diet Building grounds, June 4, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-28
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Vegetable patch on the grounds of the National Diet Building in Tokyo. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Small patch of vegetables, including cabbages and beans, in a corner of the grounds of the National Diet Building, Tokyo."

Dates: June 4, 1947

Workers pulling a roller in parking lot behind Dai Iti Hotel, June 5, 1947

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 31430059799595], item: G-29
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Japanese workers pulling a roller with ropes in a parking lot behind the Dai Iti Hotel. Description provided by photographer Roy Simonson reads: "Small group of Japanese men pulling a roller to pack the earth in the parking lot for American cars behind the Dai Iti Hotel, Tokyo."

Dates: June 5, 1947