Tokyo From Atajo-Yama, Japan. 1900s Japan, public domain image.

Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Though the disastrous earthquake of Sept., 1923, followed by tidal wave and fire practically destroyed Japan's great and beautiful capital, causing a property loss of $2,741,000,000, Tokyo is being rapidly rebuilt into one of the finest of modern cities. In the new city, residential districts are segregated from commercial and industrial districts. Six new avenues from 100 feet to 150 feet wide cut across the most crowded sections supplementing the old main thoroughfares, while more than one hundred new streets with a minimum width of 36 feet, replace the old narrow crooked lanes and streets. Fire-proof zones have been planned and the government is subsidizing the erection of fire-proof buildings. ..Tokyo proper has a population of 2,036,000 while Greater Tokyo, following the plan of consolidating former suburbs, announced its population in August, 1925, as 3,859,674.". .Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides. .Item Number: P217:set 051 005. .You can find this image by searching for the item number by clicking here ( http://oregondigital.org/digcol ) . ..Want more? You can find more digital resources online ( http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/digital-resources.html ) . ..We're happy for you to share this digital image within the spirit of The Commons; however, certain restrictions on high quality reproductions of the original physical version may apply. To read more about what “no known restrictions” means, please visit the Special Collections & Archives website ( http://archives.library.oregonstate.edu/exhibits/FlickrCommonsNoKnownCopyrightsRestrictions.html ) , or contact staff at the OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center for details.