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Description
Photograph of Rabindranath Tagore (center) arrives by train in Los Angeles as a guest of the University of Southern California. According to the Los Angeles Times, he is accompanied by "S. Datta" (left) who is described as a poet and a student of Tagore (quite possibly Sudhindranath Datta), and A. K. Chanda, of the Calcutta University faculty, a member of the Indian Educational Service. Tagore won the Nobel prize for literature in 1913. A polymath from Bengal, he was a poet, philosopher, playwright and composer held a doctorate in literature from Calcutta university. Photo appears with the article "Distinguished Mystic and Poet in City: SAGE OF BENGAL GUEST HERE Tagore, Outstanding Indian Philosopher, Nobel Prize Winner, Will Give Lecture to U. S. C. Students," Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 1929: A1. Text from newspaper caption: Among India's foremost men: S. Datta, Sir Rabindranath Tagore, and A. K. Chand
Type
image
Format
b&w glass negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_b3731_G4806 ark:/21198/z1xd6tq1
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Nobel Prize winners--India Poets--India Arrivals & departures--Indian--California--Los Angeles Authors--Indian Philosophers Datta, Sudhindranath, 1901-1960 Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 Chanda, A. K
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