Description: Vintage travel brochures for Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two cities in Japan that suffered the unlucky fate of being the targets of atomic blasts in 1945, marking the cataclysmic end to World War II. Both cities were largely destroyed by the bombs (with death tolls in the hundreds of thousands), and were largely rebuilt in the years following the war. Hiroshima was a city of about 400,000 people on August 6, 1945, when the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) dropped the “Little Boy” atomic bomb on its downtown, destroying 70% of the city’s buildings and resulting in a death toll of perhaps 140,000 by the end of the year. Being a busy port and manufacturing center, it quickly rebuilt and today is a thriving metropolis of 1.4 million. Nagasaki, a city on the southern island of Kyushu, had a population of about 260,000 on August 9, 1945, when the US dropped the “Fat Man” atomic bomb on the city, resulting in a death toll of perhaps 70,000. (There was less devastation than in Hiroshima because of the uneven terrain of Nagasaki.) It is now a city of 500,000 people. Included here is a vintage tourist brochure for Hiroshima, with such attractions as the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum & Park (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), the Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima Castle, Hiroshima Gokoku Shrine, and the local zoo & botanical garden (from the Hiroshima City Tourist Association, 1988); a vintage official brochure for the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, the most popular tourist destination in southern Japan and the most-visited site in the country for school field-trips (from circa 1970); a vintage, unique foldout brochure for Hiroshima (from circa 1955) centered around the atomic blast that destroyed the city 10 years earlier, featuring images of the atomic blast and the devastation it caused, as well as a map of the city’s destruction, and the Peace Memorial to commemorate that terrible day (In Japanese and English); a rare, special folder entitled “Atoms For Peace”, featuring a small (5 x 2.5) detached black & white photograph of the Atomic Bomb Dome, part of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park (from the United States Information Service, 1955); and a vintage (sort of) brochure/map for Nagasaki, a unique city in Japan in that it was founded in 1571 by the Portuguese (from the Tourism Section of Nagasaki City Hall, circa 1980).
Price: 12.99 USD
Location: San Francisco, California
End Time: 2025-01-21T23:07:51.000Z
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Type: Vintage Travel Brochures for Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Region of Origin: Japan
Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan
Handmade: No
