These first images show the scenes that caught George Harvan's eye as he wandered the streets of Tokyo while off duty in 1946. Struck by the devastation of the war, he focused on the consequences of the war as revealed in the movement of people in the city streets. Harvan's interest in the human dimension of the postwar experience links these early photographs to his subsequent documentation of the closing of the mines after his return to the Pennsylvania anthracite region.

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