Clyde Waddell photograph album of Calcutta, 1945-1946

Name:

Waddell, Clyde, 1916-1997

Timespan:

British occupation, 1765-1947

Date:

1945/1946

Description:

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.

Language:

English

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- India; World War, 1939-1945 -- India -- Pictorial works; History

Form/Genre:

photographs; photograph albums; manuscripts (documents); illustrated works (documents)

Physical Description:

1 volume (60 photographs)

Geographic Subject:

Kolkata (India) -- Description and travel; Kolkata (India) -- Photographs; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947; India

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Chief photographer for Houston Press; from 1943, personal press photographer for Supreme Commander Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten with the public relations staff of the Southeast Asia Command; from 1945, photographer for Phoenix Magazine, a weekly pictorial magazine sponsored by the combined U.S.-British command.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Coll. 802