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51. Photo 934(50)

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Photo 934(50)
Title:
[Street scene with shoemakers, Calcutta.] Photographer: Waddell, Clyde
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography 'Down one alley you might see a shop such as this one, packed with shoemakers sewing and cutting or pulling on a hookah such as the one at right. Combined with the shoemaking enterprise is a laundry (dhobie). During monsoon, dhobie must contrive to dry clothes insid...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1946
Extent:
1 item

52. Photo 934(51)

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Photo 934(51)
Title:
[Street people asleep, Calcutta.] Photographer: Waddell, Clyde
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography 'Most any block in the slum areas will find natives sleeping huddled together under any shelter they can find, frequently none at all. How the thousands of homeless can survive under such conditions is beyond the understanding of many Western visitors.' Subjects ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1946
Extent:
1 item

53. Photo 934(52)

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Photo 934(52)
Title:
[Chinese opium den, Calcutta.] Photographer: Waddell, Clyde
Scope & Content:
Interior of an opium den, with three Chinese men smoking pipes: 'A little snooping in Chinatown will turn up one of the little opium dens stuck down an alley (not recommended without police escort). Actually, the smokers shown in this picture do it legally. Each den is licensed for so many rupee...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1946
Extent:
1 item

54. Photo 934(53)

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Photo 934(53)
Title:
[American G.I. and prostitutes, Calcutta.] Photographer: Waddell, Clyde
Scope & Content:
'Highlight of an out-of-bounds visit is of course, a look-in on the lassies. These dusky lady of the night ask from $3.00 to $6.00 for the dubious pleasure they offer. The GI seems to find making choice hard.' Subjects = prostitutes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1946
Extent:
1 item

55. Photo 934(54)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 934(54)
Title:
[Eating breakfast on the pavement, Park Street, Calcutta.] Photographer: Waddell, Clyde
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography 'Early morning in many a Calcutta street finds natives huddled together around a breakfast teapot, having risen from their sidewalk abode. The milkman makes a regular stop at this community gathering on busy Park Street.' Subjects = street dwellers; street scenes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1946
Extent:
1 item

56. Photo 934(55)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 934(55)
Title:
[Fruit vendor, Calcutta.] Photographer: Waddell, Clyde
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography 'The noon snack is taken by many at a fruit vendor such as this one. Verboten to troops by military order, sanitation isn't even considered and peels litter the streets. Greatest menance of this dealer is the threat of cholera, carried by flies from open garbage bin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1946
Extent:
1 item

57. Photo 934(56)

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Photo 934(56)
Title:
[Drying cakes of cow dung for fuel, Calcutta.] Photographer: Waddell, Clyde
Scope & Content:
''Patty-cake Annie' is the nickname tagged to the makers of India's most plentiful fuel by American soldierswho must indulge their sense of humor. The sun-baked cow-dung patties are used by the poorer classes who cannot afford scarce wood for fuel to heat their homes and cook their food.' Shows ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1946
Extent:
1 item

58. Photo 934(57)

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Photo 934(57)
Title:
[Paan seller, Calcutta.] Photographer: Waddell, Clyde
Scope & Content:
'One of the commonest street vendors is the paan wallah, or betel nut vendor. One tenth of the world chews the mixture of leaf, spices, nut and other variable ingredients. Chief by-product of the habit is a reddish splatter of stain, indiscriminately spat upon walls and sidewalks in Calcutta by ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1946
Extent:
1 item

59. Photo 934(58)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 934(58)
Title:
[Street barbers, Calcutta.] Photographer: Waddell, Clyde
Scope & Content:
'Sidewalk tonsorial parlour. India probably has a greater proportion of barbers than any nation, for in addition to the many salons which cater to the European and higher type Indian trade, these sidewalk shavers seem to ply their trade in every other block.' Subjects = barbers; occupations; s...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1946
Extent:
1 item

60. Photo 934(59)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 934(59)
Title:
[Cocoanut market, Cornwallis Street, Calcutta.] Photographer: Waddell, Clyde
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography 'This cocoanut market on Cornwallis Stree is a sample of the haphazard way inwhich many bazars are operated. The popular pause for refreshment is indulged by Indian in central foreground drinking cocoanut milk.' Subjects = markets; street scenes
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1946
Extent:
1 item