Lunch box
Photograph
Lunch box
From Hiroshima
1982
Gelatin silver print
Image: 10 5/16 × 12 3/4 in. (26.2 × 32.4 cm)
Paper: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Matted: 24 × 20 × 1/8 in. (61 × 50.8 × 0.3 cm)
Gift of the photographer
1990.0700.0005
Inscriptions Printed in black ink on recto BC: Lunch box \ Reiko Watanabe (15 at the time) was doing
fire prevention work under the Student \ Mobilization Order, at a place 500 meters from the hypocenter. Her lunch box was found \ by school authorities under a fallen mud wall. Its contents of boiled peas and rice, a rare \ feast at the time, were completely carbonized. Her body was not found.
Signed in pencil on verso : Hiromi Tsuchida
fire prevention work under the Student \ Mobilization Order, at a place 500 meters from the hypocenter. Her lunch box was found \ by school authorities under a fallen mud wall. Its contents of boiled peas and rice, a rare \ feast at the time, were completely carbonized. Her body was not found.
Signed in pencil on verso : Hiromi Tsuchida
