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  • Homeless and malnourished village children from Bangladesh find a moment to smile at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh. in 1977.  Their mother had been left widowed, violated and destitute after both a cyclone and subsequent war of indepence in 1971.
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  • Homeless village people from Bangladesh smoke a homemade hookah at  Mirpur Destitute Ramp near Dhaka, Bangladesh.  1977. They were left destitute by a back to back cyclone and  brutal war of independence in 1971.   1977 image.
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  • Homeless village people from Bangladesh smoke a homemade hookah at  Mirpur Destitute Ramp near Dhaka, Bangladesh.  1977. They were left destitute by a back to back cyclone and  brutal war of independence in 1971.   1977 image.
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  • Homeless village people from Bangladesh smoke a homemade hookah at  Mirpur Destitute Ramp near Dhaka, Bangladesh.  1977. They were left destitute by a back to back cyclone and  brutal war of independence in 1971.   1977 image.
    BD 0117.jpg
  • Bengali men ferrying loads of mud in a “food for work” project to dig a canal for monsoon flood drainage.  Even for moving the vast volumes of earth required, human labor in Bangladesh is much cheaper than mechanical power.  For a day’s work these men will earn just enough grain to feed their families, and they fight for any open position. Bangladesh, 1977
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  • A Muslim woman. Islamic tradition insists she keep her head covered in the outside world or in the presence of men outside her family.  The strictest devotees in Bangladesh use a full-length Purdah. Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • An aid worker leads a family planning discussion at Mirpur Destitute Camp, set up at an abndoned soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh,  after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homeless.  1977 image.
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  • A member of the ruling junta in Bangladesh reviews Bengali youth groups  celebrating thier recent independence from Pakistan.  1977 image.
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  • Homeless village children from Bangladesh line up for a ration of milk and survival biscuits at  Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, 1977.  Most of their mothers had left destitute, widowed and violated  by  back-to -back cyclone and  brutal 1971 war of independence
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  • An aid worker prepare to distribute food at Mirpur Destitute Camp, set up at an abndoned soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh,  after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homeless.  1977 image.
    BD 0305.jpg
  • Homeless village women from Bangladesh, left widowed, destitute or raped after a cyclone and brutal war of independence in 1971,  find shelter at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka , 1977 Image.
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  • Homeless village women from Bangladesh, left widowed, destitute or raped after a cyclone and brutal war of independence in 1971,  find shelter at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka , 1977 Image.
    BD 0211.jpg
  • A mother and daughter gossip as they break bricks into gravel for road construction near their home in Mirpur Destitute Camp outside of Dhaka Bangladesh.  For a long day of work the woman are paid about a pound of flour, barely enough to support their children.
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  • Children of Mirpur Destitute Camp, lined up for their daily cupful of milk and stack of survival crackers- their high point in an otherwise hungry day. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977
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  • A girl hugs her baby sister at Mirpur Destitute Camp outside of Dhaka, Bangladesh in March 1977.  The clothes they are wearing were donated by an American charity but distrubuted by the camp director who sold them for a profit he pocketed.  The infant’s head is shaved to remove lice.
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • A man pushes a cart loaded with bamboo up a road in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A sailboat carries cargo up a river near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • An aid worker leads a family planning discussion at Mirpur Destitute Camp, set up at an abndoned soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh,  after a cyclone & bloody war of independence left millions of peole homeless.  1977 image.
    BD 0302.jpg
  • A homeless village boy finds shelter at Mirpur Destitute Ramp near Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.  His mother had been left both widowed and destitute after both a cyclone and subsequent war of indepence in 1971.
    BD 0208.jpg
  • In Bangladesh's brutal 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of women were widowed, left homeless and destitute including this once-middle class woman who six years later still lived at Mirupur Destitute Camp near Dhaka.  1977
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  • In Bangladesh's brutal 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of women were widowed, left homeless and destitute including this once-middle class woman who six years later still lived at Mirupur Destitute Camp near Dhaka.  1977
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  • House boys at Hotel Eram watch a monsoon thunderhead tower over Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A homeless village woman from Bangladesh line up for a ration of milk and survival biscuits at  Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, 1977.  She had been had left destitute, widowed and violated  by  back-to -back cyclone and  brutal 1971 war of independence
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  • In Bangladesh's brutal 1971 war of independence from Pakistan, hundreds of thousands of women were widowed, left homeless and destitute including this pair of once-middle class woman who six years later still lived at Mirupur Destitute Camp near Dhaka.  1977
    BD 0216.jpg
  • A day laborer peers over the shoulder of a job foreman doling out work digging a canal in Manikganj, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie at Mirpur Destitute Rehabilitation camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh in April 1977.
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  • Homeless children gather as friends at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977
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  • Middle class college students wear the latest fashions as mingle in  in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.  Gordon Wiltsie center.
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  • Meredith Wiltsie after college students tossed dye colored ballons as they celebrate the Hindu holiday Holi in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • at a traditional Bengali wedding in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Middle class college students wear the latest fashions as mingle in  in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • Middle class college students wear the latest fashions as mingle in  in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.  Meredith Wiltsie on left.
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  • Middle class college students wear the latest fashions as mingle in  in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • A young brides's family and friends help prep her for at a traditional Bengali wedding in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • at a traditional Bengali wedding in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 2711.jpg
  • Middle class college students wear the latest fashions as mingle in  in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
    BD 2710.jpg
  • A young brides's family and friends help prep her for at a traditional Bengali wedding in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • A groom waits for his bride at a traditional Bengali wedding in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 2706.jpg
  • Middle class college students tossed dye colored ballons as they celebrate the Hindu holiday Holi in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977.
    BD 2704.jpg
  • The groom first touches his bride at a traditional Bengali wedding in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 2702.jpg
  • Young soldiers perform a drill at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, celebrating thier recent independence from Pakistan. 1977 photo
    BD 2607.jpg
  • Boy Scouts make a human pyramid  at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, celebrating thier 1971 independence from Pakistan. 1977 photo
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  • Bengali youth groups march at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, celebrating thier recent independence from Pakistan. 1977 photo
    BD 2301.jpg
  • A Bengali bagpipe group marches at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, celebrating thier 1971 independence from Pakistan. 1977 photo
    BD 2212.jpg
  • Young soldiers perform a drill at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, celebrating thier recent independence from Pakistan. 1977 photo
    BD 2208.jpg
  • Bengali youth groups march at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, celebrating thier recent independence from Pakistan. 1977 photo
    BD 2119.jpg
  • Bengali youth groups march at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, celebrating thier recent independence from Pakistan. 1977 photo
    BD 2115.jpg
  • Bengali youth groups march at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, celebrating thier recent independence from Pakistan. 1977 photo
    BD 2114.jpg
  • Boy Scouts march at a stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh, celebrating thier 1971 independence from Pakistan. 1977 photo
    BD 2111.jpg
  • House boys at Hotel Eram watch a monsoon thunderhead tower over Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 2009.jpg
  • House boys at Hotel Eram watch a monsoon thunderhead tower over Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1916.jpg
  • House boys at Hotel Eram watch a monsoon thunderhead tower over Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1903.jpg
  • A young woman weaves macrame to sell in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Catholic sisters in Dhaka, Bangladesh smile with homeless girls they have brought into the convent to teach handicrafts they can make for a living .  1977
    BD 1816.jpg
  • Homeless people dig a latrine for their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
    BD 1803.jpg
  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 1710.jpg
  • Laborers wrestle with a pipe as they help dig a fish pond to help feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
    BD 1609.jpg
  • Laborers wrestle with a pipe as they help dig a fish pond to help feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
    BD 1519.jpg
  • Laborers wrestle with a pipe as they help dig a fish pond to help feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, a population left homeless after a cyclone and 1971 war of indepence.
    BD 1518.jpg
  • in 1977 hundreds of families lived at Mirpur Destitute Camp, a bombed-out soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh, left homeless , destitute and often widowed  by  back-to -back cyclone and  brutal 1971 war of independence.
    BD 1418.jpg
  • Photographer Gordon Wiltsie helps homeless people dig a fish pond to feed their neighbors at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka Bangladesh in 1977.
    BD 1416.jpg
  • in 1977 hundreds of families lived at Mirpur Destitute Camp, a bombed-out soap factory near Dhaka, Bangladesh, left homeless , destitute and often widowed  by  back-to -back cyclone and  brutal 1971 war of independence.
    BD 1405.jpg
  • Mondsoon rains drench a "basti" slum near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1319.jpg
  • Homeless women and schildren scramble for a ration of milk and biscuits at a refugee camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1977.  They are victims of a 1970 cylcone and subsequent war of indpendence that left many of them destitute, widowed and violated.
    BD 1310.jpg
  • Homeless women and schildren scramble for a ration of milk and biscuits at a refugee camp near Dhaka, Bangladesh, in 1977.  They are victims of a 1970 cylcone and subsequent war of indpendence that left many of them destitute, widowed and violated.
    BD 1303.jpg
  • near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Fishermen wait by their nets between rice paddies near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1201.jpg
  • Laborers dig a flood control canal near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Laborers dig a flood control canal near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1108.jpg
  • A woman and her children flee oncoming plow oxen in a village near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1105.jpg
  • Cattle await an uncertain fate at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Cattle await an uncertain fate at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1015.jpg
  • Weekend cattle market at Mirpur near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A diverse crowd of people and animals gathers at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1007.jpg
  • A diverse crowd of people and animals gathers at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 1002.jpg
  • A diverse crowd of people and animals gathers at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Water Buffalo face an uncertain fate at the weekly Mirpur animal market near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0901.jpg
  • Men saw logs into firewood near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Homeless village woman from Bangladesh make bamboo lath for a duck pond at Mirpur Destitute Camp near Dhaka, 1977.  They had been had left destitute and violated  by  back-to -back cyclone and a  brutal 1971 war of independence
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  • Men saw boards from a log at a lumber mill near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0710.jpg
  • A worker makes bamboo mats near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0703.jpg
  • A blacksmithand his sons wait for the next customer at  his outdoor stall near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0702.jpg
  • A street vendor hawks his spinach at his sidewalk display in Dhaka Bangladesh, 1977.
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  • A youngster vends his nuts and snacks along a road  in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A boy sells nuts to passersby on a street in  Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • A youngster vends his fruits and vegetbles in a bazaar in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0608.jpg
  • A butcher cuts up a a steer at his outdoor stall near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
    BD 0607.jpg
  • A street vendor hawks his fruits and lentils at his sidewalk display in Dhaka Bangladesh, 1977.
    BD 0606.jpg
  • A blacksmith waits by his bed of coals his outdoor stall near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Young ferrymen paddle passengers in crowded boats across a river near Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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  • Men wait for a train in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977,
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  • Pedicab peddlers wait for a fare on the streets of  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • Human-powered transport is everywhere in the streets of  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • Men push a cart topheavy with oil drums in  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • Human-powered transport is everywhere in the streets of  Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977.
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  • Upper class college students settle up with a rickshaw driver in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1977
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  • A homeless village girl from Bangladesh pumps water from the only well for hundreds of families living Mirpur Destitute Ramp near Dhaka in 1977.  Her mother had been left destitute, and widowed and homeless by a back to back cyclone and  brutal war of independence in 1971.
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