Details

Other Title:

Yank's memories of Calcutta.

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- India.
World War, 1939-1945 -- India -- Pictorial works.
Kolkata (India) -- Description and travel.
Kolkata (India) -- Photographs.
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
India.
History.

Form/Genre:

Photographs.
Photograph albums.
Manuscripts.
Manuscripts, Digital.
Illustrated works.

Biography/History:

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.

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.

Related Collections:

Other known copies of this album are held by Southeastern Louisiana University (whose copy has a title page providing the attribution to Clyde Waddell as well as the title A Yank's memories of Calcutta) and the British Library.

OCLC:

690691615