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A photo of Kolkata street from 1945 GI photo collection. The original description is "Calcutta's traffic is usually snarled. And the reasons are clearly shown. Shuffling coolies and

padestrians with little regard for their lives seem completely oblivious to the perils of automitive traffic."
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Source http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/sasia/calcutta1947/
Author Mr. Claude Waddell
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This file is a work of a U.S. Army soldier or employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States.

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