Cities and towns

View of Matsuyama City, Japan, taken from Matsuyama Castle, with trees and other foliage in the foreground.

Aerial view of Matsuyama Castle in Matsuyama City, Japan, surrounded by urban areas.

Aerial View of an unidentified city in Japan.

View includes W. Averell Harriman in suit looking at what appears to be perhaps a store window. Believed to have been taken while he was touring in Stalinabad, Tajikistan. Charles W. Thayer accompanied Harriman as a guide and confidant on the trip which took place May 12 - June 26, 1959. Harriman went as a special foreign correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Trip visits included Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yalta, etc., as well as areas in Siberia and the Urals, and ended with a meeting with Nikita Khrushchev. Original 35mm negative.

Aerial view of Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima, Japan. The Peace Memorial Park is near the hypocenter of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.

Aerial view of the Peace Memorial Park on the island in the river at Hiroshima, Japan. The Peace Memorial Park is near the hypocenter of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan, with Hiroshima Castle at the center of the image.

Aerial view of Peace Memorial Park at Hiroshima, Japan. The image is partially obscured by an airplane propeller and cowling. The Peace Memorial Park is near the hypocenter of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima during World War II.

Aerial view of Hiroshima, Japan.

View of a cityscape, an inland sea, and surrounding countryside near Hiroshima, Japan.