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| Keywords: Paan wallah in Calcutta in 1945.jpg 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 ingridients Chief by-product of the habit is a reddish splatter of stain indiscriminately spat upon walls and sidewalks in Calcutta by carefree chewers The South Asia Section of the Van Pelt Library University of Pennsylvania recently acquired from a bookdealer a photograph album consisting of 60 photographs of Calcutta taken most likely between 1945-1946 The photographer Mr Clyde Waddell also provided the interesting glosses accompanying each photograph Several attested copies of this work has emerged including one with a 'title page' held by the Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond Louisiana Mr Waddell was a military photographer Many of his captions sound like annotations that would be found in a typical military magazine The album begins with several general long shots of Calcutta and ends with a picture of dhobi-s washermen washing clothes The text accompanying the last photograph also sounds as if the author intended to finish with that picture of one of the great mysteries of India The annotations have been included because of their intrinsic interest not only to the photographs but to a 'typical' American impression of India at this time 1945 http //www library upenn edu/collections/sasia/calcutta1947/ Clyde Waddell other versions PD-USGov Van Pelt Library University of Pennsylvania - Clyde Waddell Calcutta 1940's photos Uploaded with UploadWizard Paan | ||||
