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| Keywords: Bjh45 yokohama lower.jpg YOKOHAMA ¦ At the end of the third year from the opening of the Port the foreign community numbered 126; from that time however it has multiplied considerably On the 26th November 1866 Yokohama which had progressed since its establishment in 1859 with a healthfulness and rapidity its most sanguine well-wishers could hardly have foreseen was visited by a calamitous fire which swept away a large portion of the Native town and about one-third of the Foreign settlement destroying insured property to the amount of two million and-a-half of dollars besides a great deal that was uninsured; and for a short time staggered its energies Within one year however it has notwithstanding a time of unprecedented commercial depression gradually recovered; and may now be said to promise a steadiness of advance which will in all probability lead to its eventually being the most substantial sea-port town in the Japanese empire http //ocw mit edu/ans7870/21f/21f 027j/beato_places/fb_menu html between 1863 and early 1870s Creator Felice Beato 100px PD-old-100 History of Yokohama Photographs of Japan by Felice Beato | ||||
