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OT: Another Collection Out & Finally Photographed. Hiroshima (Phoenix Collection EKL)

Hi All,

Many of you know I buy and sell artifacts and items from the bombing of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. I have collected for several years now but as the last few were consumed with other responsibilities, I was never able to find time to get things out of storage, in some cases even unpack them, and see them together. Here is a photograph of a small portion of my own Hiroshima collection. Just some artifacts - I have a lot more material from survivors autographs to signed books and original color slides. I labelled the images so you can see what you are looking at. I have NO interest in war - this is collected to show the strength of one man - Kiyoshi Kikkawa (1913-1987), who was a victim and turned his circumstances around and used his unwanted platform ("A-Bomb Victim #1" as the press dubbed him..."Joe Kikkawa") to promote peace for the rest of his life. He was among those who struggled to preserve the Dome building we all know today.

I hope you find this interesting. In time other collections will be removed from storage and photographed - posted if anyone wants to see. Very eclectic collections.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on January 12, 2022 at 2:18pm

Just completed after a year for a customer in Germany. He's a really cool Professor working on Covid night and day. A deliberately varied collection of blast artifacts from Hiroshima and Nagsaki (as noted in the pic). I am getting ready to ship and snapped this. The clear glass is a perfume bottle that is nearly flat, there is fused metal from the Urekami Cathedral in Nagasaki and a beautiful porcelain blue and white peice with intact foot and nearly complete painting. There is a bit of deformed green glass as well as a vitrified fragment of a brick, The rest are various types of traditional roof and ridge tiles from both areas.

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Permalink Reply by Eric Keith Longo on January 14, 2022 at 6:14pm

Was very pleased to find this today. I've a small sub-collection of children playing in or near the Genbaku Dome. Some candids in b/w and one 35mm slide. Good to have another.