Fonds consists of photographs that mainly document bombings in Shanghai by military forces from Japan in 1937. It is likely that the photographs of two bombing incidents were taken when Victor was a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps. The images show the devastation caused by the bombings including streetscapes and details of blown out buildings and dismembered casualties. Other photographs at the beginning of the album are postcards of Shanghai in its heyday before the bombings. Textual documents are from the 1930s and 1940s and include registration cards, a birthday card, a passport as well as identification cards of Victor, Valentina and Elizabeth.
View of Ginza Main Street in Tokyo, looking north towards 3-chōme and 4-chōme, circa 1910, from atop the Hattori Clock Tower. Note the Kyōya Clock Co. Ginza clock tower and the Iwaya Shōkai tobacco store on the right
Item is a photograph showing buildings along a road, with people walking and rickshaws and carts parked on it. Utility poles and cherry trees appear throughout
Item is a photograph of an elderly couple in the foreground and three people in the background. All are wearing traditional clothing and are standing in a bamboo grove
Item is a photograph of a bridge over a river. [Sacred bridge at Nikko]. Mountain and trees appear in background. Possibly by photographer Kozaburo Tamamura