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Barge activity

Description

Abstract:
A lighter (a small barge that travels back and forth between larger ships, or larger ships and land, usually to transport commercial goods) on Yokohama Bay. These boats are operated manually with barge pole using currents.
Notes:
White border; overexposure on right side

Access Conditions

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

Citation

"Barge activity" (1923). Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:54008/

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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