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Item is a photograph showing earthquake destruction. Two men are standing by a dead body.

Item is a copy of Plate VI in the book "The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891" by John Milne and W.K. Burton, showing the Nagoya Spinning Mill in Japan, after 1891 earthquake.

Item a copy of Plate XXII in "The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891" by John Milne and W.K. Burton. The image shows Nagara Railway Bridge, twisted and broken after 1891 earthquake. A man stands in the middle of the track.

Item is a photograph showing earthquake destruction in the Neo Valley. A jutting roof appears in the foreground. Photographed by Mr. K. Kimbei of Yokohama

Item is a copy of Plat X in "The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891" by John Milne and W.K. Burton. The image shows a railway line twisted by earthquake of 1891, and Kisogawa railway bridge in background.

Item is a photograph showing a field of debris from earthquake destruction in Kasamatsu, Japan. It is a copy of Plate XV in the book "The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891" by John Milne and W.K. Burton.

Item is a copy of Plate III in the book "The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891" by John Milne and W.K. Burton.

Item is a copy of Plate I: Biwajima in "The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891" by John Milne and W.K. Burton.

This image is featured in "The Great Earthquake of Japan, 1891"
by John Milne and W.K. Burton with 29 Plates by K. Ogawa, 1st Edition (ca 1892). It is plate IX from the book.

Item is a photograph showing people in a parade moving through street of Kyoto. They are pulling a wheeled shrine and are wearing ceremonial dress

Item is a photograph showing six men standing outdoors posing for picture. Military personnel or police; reads, "Japs at Tientsin”.

Item is a photograph of flowers against the sky. Reads, "CHRYSANTHEMUM." Possibly by photographer Ogawa Kazumasa

Item is a photograph showing Professor Burton and Ōzutsu Man’emon also known as Taihō, the 18th Yokozuna, the highest ranked sumo wrestler, taken in Burton’s garden, ca. 1895. Reads, “Professor Burton and Taiho the Giant Wrestler.” Featured as Plate XII in Burton, W. K. Wrestlers and Wrestling in Japan. Tokyo: K. Ogawa, 1895.

Item is a photograph of a woman holding an umbrella outside in the snow. The photo is attributed to Tamamura Kōzaburō.

Item is a photograph showing people on the taiko-bashi (drum bridge) over the Shinji-ike pond and wisteria in full bloom at Kameido Tenjin shrine in Tokyo. This is one of the many photographs from this period, which were patterned after ukiyo-e woodblock prints. This photograph follows a 1865 print, Inside Kameido Tenshin Shrine by Hiroshige Ando and others.