Keywords: Howrah Bridge, Calcutta in 1945.jpg Calcutta boasts the third largest cantielver bridge in the world Its real importance however lies in the fact that it serves as Calcutta's gateway to the wese being the city's only bridge spanning the Hooghly Taking 7 years to build it cost 10 000 000 It towers 310 feet as the city's highes structure is 2 150 feet long with a center span of 1 500 feet It was completed in 1942 opened in February 1943 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 Historical images of the Howrah Bridge Original upload log page en wikipedia Howrabridge1945 jpg 2006-03-19 06 41 40 Dwaipayanc 957×707 193691 bytes <nowiki> Summary Photos taken by GIs in Calcutta in 1945 Obtained as a photo album by University of Pennsylvania Library The digital copies of these photos are available without any licence learnt by personal correspondence with nelsond pobox upenn edu </nowiki> |