Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Clyde Waddell photograph album of Calcutta

Authors

• Waddell, Clyde

Call number

Ms. Coll. 802
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9949134203503681
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4913420

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Summary

Sixty gelatin silver prints (8 x 10 1/8 inches) of Calcutta street and river scenes, with a few interior pictures of temples, train stations, an opium den, and a brothel. Many of the photographs feature American soldiers stationed in Calcutta or document American military landmarks in Calcutta, such as the U.S. Army headquarters, a hotel for U.S. Army officers, and the American Red Cross Burra Club. Each photograph has a caption of a few sentences. Lacks title page and printed introduction present in other known copies.

Extent

1 volume (60 photographs)

Subjects topical

• World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--India
• World War, 1939-1945--India--Pictorial works

Genres

• Photographs
• Photograph albums
• Manuscripts--India
• Manuscripts, Digital

Licenses

• Text

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