Roof tile fragments from Hiroshima, Japan, no date.

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Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981,. Roof tile fragments from Hiroshima, Japan, no date.

Roof tile fragments from Hiroshima, Japan, no date.

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The tile fragments were a gift of the graduate student organization "Association of Hiroshima University Students for Sending an Atomic-Bombed Roof Tile, Hiroshima University" to the University of Virginia in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the construction of Hiroshima University in 1950. The University of Virginia was one of many institutions of higher education to respond to a request from Tasuo Morito, then president of Hiroshima University, for books to rebuild the library and saplings to reforest the city of Hiroshima. The tile fragments were retrieved from a river bed near ground zero of the 1945 atomic explosion. With the fragments are a green and white silk scarf in which the fragments were wrapped; a letter, 2011 April 15, from Toshimasa Asahara, President of Hiroshima University, conveying the fragments to the University of Virginia and asking that they be used to promote peace; a statement in English and in Japanese, 2010 January 20, from the Graduate School of Engineering explaining residual radioactivity tests that were carried out on the fragments; a letter, undated, from Rebun Kayo, chairman of the student association, explaining the tile fragments and discussing the effects of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima; and, a letter, 2010 September 11, from from Rebun Kayo, offering to donate the tile fragments to the University of Virginia, along with two color photographs of samples of the tile fragments. The collection also includes four photographs, 2011 July 5, of Rebun Kayo at the river bed where the tile fragments were recovered, and a photograph of Rebun Kayo and Dr. Toshimasa Asahara, President of Hiroshima University. Of interest are copies of correspondence between Colgate Darden and Tasuo Morito, 1952, concerning books for Hiroshima University Library and Darden's personal donation of funds for trees to be planted at the University.

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