Overview
- Brief Narrative
- The Kobe Municipal Office issued an English-language tourist guide to Kobe and its environs. The guide included this map used by Jewish refugees in Kobe.
- Date
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publication/distribution:
approximately 1941
- Geography
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depiction:
Kyoto (Japan)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mark Fishaut
- Contributor
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Distributor:
Suzuki Shobisha
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Classification
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Information Forms
- Category
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Maps
- Object Type
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Tourist maps (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Rectangular multicolored paper map with multiple folds. When closed, the front cover has an image of a woman in traditional Japanese dress walking in a garden with buildings in the background. The back cover has an advertisement for Kyoto Hotel. When open, one side has a map of Kyoto and its vicinity and other side has advertisements for shops and factories in Kyoto.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 21.125 inches (53.658 cm) | Width: 15.125 inches (38.418 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Kyoto (Japan)--Maps.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The map was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Mark Fishaut.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-11-07 13:59:18
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522492
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