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Body of Indian Boy on Sidewalk Outside Great Eastern Hotel, Calcutta, India; U.S. Reparations Mission

2009-528
Accession Number
2009-528
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 348550046
Related Collection
Pauley, Edwin W. Papers
Keywords
Cities and towns
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Hotels
Reparations
HST Keywords
India - Calcutta
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Description
In Calcutta, India, an Indian boy lies dead, covered by cloth, on sidewalk in front of Great Eastern Hotel. Photograph taken during the U.S. Reparations Mission. Edwin Pauley was the U.S. Ambassador on the Allied Reparations Committee from 1945-1947 (the committee that assessed the reparations the Axis powers could afford to pay the victors).
Date(s)
June 25, 1946