One of a series of photographs taken during a boat trip around Yokohama Bay. Two boats being loaded with provisions (perhaps rocks, rice, or sand), ostensibly for the relief effort.
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 …