Oura waterfront street

This is the Oura Bund around the mid-Meiji period. The second building from the right is Oura No. 10, the home of the Nagasaki Club, a social place for foreign residents at the time. The electric pole in front of the building was installed by Nagasaki Electric Light Company after 1893. The hill behind the buildings is Higashiyamate. Russel Hall (the main hall of Kwassui Gakuen School), built in 1882, is visible. ==Date:unknown, Place:Nagasaki, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images)

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