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The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923

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The Atlantic has posted an online image gallery which uses some images from The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection. In August 1923, William Dana Reynolds, with his wife Vera Hunt Reynolds and their young daughter Helen, embarked from Honolulu on the Japanese steamship Taiyo Maru, bound for … The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923

The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection

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The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923 brought to bear many issues of representation and response that have recently been in the media’s eye in the wake of the tragedies in Haiti and Chile. William Dana Reynolds, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, documented his experience after arriving in Yokohama Bay on September 9, 1923. His ship survived the … The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection