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WADDELL (CLYDE)
A Yank's Memories of Calcutta, [no publisher, 1946]

3 November 2015, 13:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

Sold for £812.50 inc. premium

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WADDELL (CLYDE)

A Yank's Memories of Calcutta, printed introduction by M. Charles Preston, 60 gelatin silver prints corner-mounted (images 200 x 250mm.), printed captions beneath each image, original cloth, oblong folio (255 x 305mm.), [no publisher, 1946]

Footnotes

Clyde Waddell was with the Allies in Calcutta, working as photographer on the Phoenix Magazine, an army picture weekly, from 1943 to 1945. Includes fine views of the city (Chowinghee Street, panoramas taken from the top of Hooghly Bridge, the Hindustan Building, the Burra Bazar on Harrison Street, Juma Masjid mosque, Nimtolla burning ghat), bustling street scenes (buffalo herds, beggars, snake charmers, "a native madman... accosting cars", a Sikh taxi-driver), the poor of the slums, American servicemen interacting with the locals (street vendors, bookstall holders "specialising in lurid novels, sex treatises...", brothel keepers).

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