[Buckling of north wall of wing number one of Funairi Grammar School, Hiroshima]

[Two female firefighters demonstrate the use of hand-drawn hose reels, Hiroshima]

[People walking through the ruins of Hiroshima in the weeks following the atomic bomb blast]

[Burned-over landscape with Nagarekawa Church of the Japan Christian Society in the foreground, Hiroshima]

[Interior showing typical damage to roof, Red Cross Building interior, Hiroshima]

[Blast-damaged penthouse of Hiroshima Industrial Company (Old Fukuya Department Store)]

[Buckling of north wall of wing number one of Funairi Grammar School, Hiroshima]

[Charred fire truck on the site of the destroyed West Side fire station, Hiroshima]

[Method of fastening steel sheeting to building frame, Sanyo Middle School, Hiroshima]

[Completely collapsed blast-damaged walls and trusses of Okita Iron Works, Hiroshima]

[Completely collapsed blast-damaged walls and trusses of Okita Iron Works, Hiroshima]

[Blast-damaged ruins of Chugoku Coal Distribution Company or Hiroshima Gas Company]

[Completely collapsed blast-damaged walls and trusses of Okita Iron Works, Hiroshima]

[Third-story column with reinforcement, Chiyoda Life Insurance Company, Chugoku branch, Hiroshima]

[Partly burned wood-lath and plaster ceiling in corridor of Hiroshima University of Literature and Science]

[Looking upstream on Motoyasu River toward Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Commercial Display Building]

[Corrugated iron stripped from walls by blast, Chugoku Electric Company Substation, Hiroshima]

[Interior of Sotoku Middle School, Hiroshima, showing blast-distorted steel roof trusses]

[Rooftop view of ruins with Nagarekawa Church of the Japan Christian Society in the middle background, Hiroshima]

[Corrugated iron stripped from walls by blast, Chugoku Electric Company Substation, Hiroshima]

[Burned-over landscape, looking northeast, with Hiroshima Telephone Company Dial Exchange in center]

[Detail of mesh reinforcements of second story of Sumitomo Fire Insurance Company, Hiroshima branch]

[Destroyed roof and collapsed load-bearing, brick walls of Hijiyama Food Storehouse, Hiroshima]