An American Soldier in Assam in 1943-1944
Published: 1943
Language: eng
Notes: 160 photos inserted 1 to 14 to a page on both sides of 13 black album leaves. Approximately 1/3 are 4 x 4cm. or a bit larger. The rest range from 8 x 6cm. up to 11 x 8cm. A couple of postcards as well as 13 small commercial photos of Darjeeling are present but not included in our count of photos. Quality of photos varies from pretty good to really mediocre. Ephemera mounted on both sides of a 14th leaf. Leaves heavily chipped along right edge. Only a handful of captions. Tied, rather inexpensive, brown album measures approximately 38 x 29cm. Later black tie. Fair. Our soldier comes to Assam as a Private in the middle of 1943; the latest date in the album seems to be a couple of receipts relating to Darjeeling in July and August of 1944. A piece of ephemera relates to his dispatch from the U.S. to India; two others are bills from Upper Assam and Darjeeling; and there is also a personal-sized typed note from an Associate Editor at The Saturday Evening Post acknowledging that their picture of a Gurkha in the Feb. 26th (1944) issue was not really a typical Gurkha and that they should possibly have made that clear in their caption. Several photos are captioned "Hunting Trip;" it is unclear what they were hunting although a couple of rather grainy photos seem to picture an animal that looks like a water buffalo.