"The Great Kanto Earthquake 関東大震災写真集 site contains 199 images, which were scanned from black & white still photos matted on a black background." University of Hawai'i-Manoa
Photographs taken by Professor Seckel during his time in Japan from 1936 to 1947; digitized by the Institute of East Asian Art History at Heidelberg University
Related works: MA-thesis by Anne-Laure Bodin:
http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/4598/
here a direct link to the thesis:
http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/4598/1/Bodin_Japan_durch_die_Augen_eines_deutschen_Kunsthistorikers_gesehen_2016.pdf
and to the images:
http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/artdok/4598/8/Bodin_Japan_durch_die_Augen_eines_deutschen_Kunsthistorikers_gesehen_Abbildungen_2016.pdf
Select "Photography: the World through the Lens" and access 3 photo collections: Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period; The Meiji and Taisho Eras in Photographs; Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures
The archives of Nineteenth Century Collections Online are presented in a modular, topic-specific format that enables libraries to customize and scale their holdings to meet a variety of collection development goals, research needs, and budgets. Four archives encompassing some 10 million pages will be released in spring 2012.