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Title: A blind beggar on Chowreenghee Road, Calcutta, India (January, 1946)
Date: 1946-01
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Series: People
Subject: Beggars -- India -- Calcutta
Local Identifier: RB-87
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-56321
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Title: A blind street beggar in downtown Calcutta, India (January, 1946)
Date: 1946-01
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Series: People
Subject: Beggars -- India -- Calcutta
Local Identifier: RB-80
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-56285
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Title: A British naval officer on a street in Calcutta, India, January 1946
Date: 1946-01
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Description: First Lt. Herbert Striner had met this officer at the officers club in Calcutta, India. Then met him again the next day on the main thoroughfare of downtown Calcutta,Chowringee Road. The officers club was open to all officers of the Allied forces that had been involved in the China -Burma -India Theater of War. The name of the officers club was Karnani Estates.
Series: People
Subject: Soldiers -- India -- Calcutta
Local Identifier: RB-78
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-56283
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Title: Building and statue at the Victoria Memorial, Calcutta, India (January 1946)
Date: 1946-01
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Description: This is a memorial dedicated to Queen Victoria with various impressive buildings and statues. It was located in downtown central Calcutta.
Series: Buildings
Subject: Memorials -- India -- Calcutta; Museums -- India -- Calcutta; Statues -- India -- Calcutta
Local Identifier: RB-55
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-67649

Title: Crowd during a demonstration for independence from Great Britain, Calcutta, India (January 1946)
Date: 1946-01
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Series: People
Subject: Demonstrations -- India -- Calcutta -- Photographs
Local Identifier: RB-76
Type: Negatives (photographic)
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-67658

Title: First Lt. Herbert Striner waiting to board S.S. Marine Jumper (March 1946)
Date: 1946-03
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Series: People
Subject: Soldiers -- United States -- Photographs; World War, 1939-1945 -- Veterans
Subject -- Personal Name: Striner, Herbert E.
Local Identifier: RB-26
Type: Negatives (photographic)
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-67645
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Title: First Lt. Sydney Lee in a rickshaw, Calcutta, India (January 1946)
Date: 1946-01
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Description: First Lt. Sydney Lee was Herbert Striner's Executive Officer. He and Striner were spending the day on leave from Camp Kanchrapara. Rickshaws were pulled by men called rickshaw wallahs.
Series: People
Subject: Rickshaw men -- India -- Calcutta; Rickshaws -- India -- Calcutta; Soldiers -- United States -- Photographs
Subject -- Personal Name: Lee, Sydney
Local Identifier: RB-77
Type: Negatives (photographic)
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-67659

Title: Four Nepalese workers, Calcutta, India (December 1945)
Date: 1945-12
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Series: People
Subject: Nepalese -- Photographs; Persons -- India -- Calcutta -- Photographs
Local Identifier: RB-74
Type: Negatives (photographic)
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-67656

Title: Scene from a deck of the troopship Marine Jumper, as it was departing from the port of Calcutta, India (March, 1946)
Date: 1946-03
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Description: There were several thousand troops aboard this troopship on the 22 day voyage which went down the Hooghly River into the Ganges Delta, then via the Indian Ocean, the China Sea across the Pacific Ocean.
Series: Landscapes
Subject: Harbors -- India -- Calcutta
Local Identifier: RB-90
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-56325
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Title: A small cigar and cigarette "shop" on a side street near the major thoroughfare, Chowringhee Road, in Calcutta, India (February, 1946)
Date: 1946-02
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Series: Buildings; People
Subject: Cigarette vendors -- India -- Calcutta; Cigars -- India -- Calcutta; Stores, Retail -- India -- Calcutta
Local Identifier: RB-85
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-56320
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Title: St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, India (January, 1946)
Date: 1946-01
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Series: Buildings
Subject: Church buildings -- India -- Calcutta
Local Identifier: RB-84
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-56324
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Street in Calcutta, India (January 1946)
Date: 1946-01
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Series: Landscapes
Subject: Streets -- India -- Calcutta -- Photographs
Local Identifier: RB-25
Type: Negatives (photographic)
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-67644
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Title: Two men sleeping on a side street in Calcutta, India (January, 1946)
Date: 1946-01
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Series: People
Subject: Men -- India -- Calcutta
Local Identifier: RB-79
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-56284
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Title: Two workers washing the hallway of an apartment building in Calcutta, India (January, 1946)
Date: 1946-01
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Series: People
Subject: Apartment houses -- Employees -- India -- Calcutta
Local Identifier: RB-81
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-56286
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Title: U.S. Army troops boarding a troopship returning them from Calcutta, India to Seattle, Washington (March, 1946)
Date: 1946-03
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Description: The name of the troopship was the Marine Jumper. The trip took 22 days.
Series: People
Subject: Transports -- United States
Local Identifier: RB-88
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-56322
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Title: U.S. Army troops boarding the troopship Marine Jumper (March, 1946)
Date: 1946-03
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Description: This was at the King George's docks, Calcutta, India. The destination was Seattle, Washington. The trip would take 22 days, via the Indian Ocean, the China Sea, the Pacific Ocean.
Series: People
Subject: Transports -- United States
Local Identifier: RB-89
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-56323
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Title: Victoria Memorial, Calcutta, India (January, 1946)
Date: 1946-01
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Description: Herbert Striner, then a first lieutenant, U.S. Army, had been in an Army hospital for six weeks and during a week of leave prior to his next assignment, was seeing the sights in Calcutta, India.
Series: Arts
Subject: Statues -- India -- Calcutta; Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Statues
Local Identifier: RB-83
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-56319
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Title: A view of the U.S. Army troopship, the Marine Jumper (March, 1946)
Date: 1946-03
Creator: Striner, Herbert E.
Description: Alongside a dock in the port of Calcutta, India. Awaiting the loading of U.S. Army troops returning to the United States.
Series: Landscapes
Subject: Transports -- United States
Local Identifier: RB-91
Type: Photographs
Physical Location: American University Library
Collection: Photographic Material and Other Art Work of Herbert E. Striner
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-56326
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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