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Boats of refugees being taken aboard the Taiyo Maru

Description

Abstract:
Photograph taken from the deck of the Taiyo Maru, showing three boats full of refugees being taken aboard the ship. Refugees dressed mostly in Western clothing, some with trunks, children.

Access Conditions

Rights
No Copyright - United States
Restrictions on Use
Collection is open for research.

Citation

"Boats of refugees being taken aboard the Taiyo Maru" (1923). Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:53951/

Relations

Collection:

  • Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923

    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 Yokohama. While at sea, the ship experienced and survived a tsunami only …

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