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Photo 934(52)
- Record Id:
- 040-003126039
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003125987
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026100107.0x0012c1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 934(52)
- Title:
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[Chinese opium den, Calcutta.] Photographer: Waddell, Clyde
- Scope & Content:
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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 rupees. Each pipe costs a rupee, a phial of opium five rupees. Average smoker consumes a phial a day and there are about 186 pipes licensed in Calcutta.'
Subjects = Chinese (ethnic group); drugs; ethnic groups; opium
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003125987
040-003126039 - Is part of:
- Photo 934 : Clyde Waddell: 'A Yank's Memories of Calcutta.'
Photo 934(52) : [Chinese opium den, Calcutta.] Photographer: Waddell, Clyde - Hierarchy:
- 032-003125987[0052]/040-003126039
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 934
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1945
- End Date:
- 1947
- Date Range:
- c 1946
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Waddell, Clyde
- Places:
- Calcutta, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Asia