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Alumna letters share India story from 1919
Florence Schwarzwaelder, Barnard Class of 1914, writes from Calcutta during a three year mining assignment with her husband. She describes life in a jungle camp with elephants bears tigers and cobras near their bungalow and notes being the second white woman seen by local natives.
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Halsey St
Brooklyn
N. Y
Barnard Bulletin
Barnard College
New York
Florence Schwarzwaelder
Harriet F. Hale
India
Henry Volker
Columbia
School of Mines
Calcutta