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Description Corner of Harrison Street (Burra Bazar) and Strand Road, Calcutta in 1945.jpg |
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Original description:"A bewildering mass of billboards at the corner of Harrison Street (Burra Bazar) and Strand Road. One of the oldest secions of Calcutta, at the foot of Howrah Bridge, it is a fine vantage point for photo-graphing the passing parade of oddly dressed natives and curious vehicles."
The South Asia Section of the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania recently acquired from a bookdealer a photograph album consisting of 60 photographs of Calcutta taken most likely between 1945-1946. The photographer, Mr. Clyde Waddell, also provided the interesting glosses accompanying each photograph. Several attested copies of this work has emerged including one with a 'title page' held by the Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana. Mr. Waddell was a military photographer. Many of his captions sound like annotations that would be found in a typical military magazine. The album begins with several general long shots of Calcutta and ends with a picture of dhobi-s (washermen) washing clothes. The text accompanying the last photograph also sounds as if the author intended to finish with that picture of one of the "great mysteries of India." The annotations have been included because of their intrinsic interest not only to the photographs but to a 'typical' American impression of India at this time.
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Source | http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/sasia/calcutta1947/ |
Author | Clyde Waddell |
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- 2005-10-05 20:10 Calcuttaphile 948×720× (192314 bytes) Photos taken by GIs in Calcutta in 1945. Obtained as a photo album by University of Pennsylvania Library. The digital copies of these photos are available without any licence ( learnt by personal correspondence with [email protected] ) . Visit http: