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Photo taken by a US Navy sailor who was on the USS Toledo Baltimore class heavy cruiser ship on a goodwill cruise to the Indian Ocean, during which she stopped at Karachi, Pakistan; Singapore, Malaya (Malaysia); Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka); and Bombay (Mumbai), India, and then to Tsingtao (Qingdao) China to assist in the evacuation of Chinese Nationalists to Taiwan. These negatives show the historic record of the cruise through the eyes of a sailor.

This is an original black and white photo negative, found at a sale in Columbus, Ohio. There is only one clue to the owner of the photos - a processing envelope from Gallaher Drug Stores, with the name of R. B. Kneller at the address of 637 1/2 E. Wheeling, which is probably Lancaster, Ohio. The negatives were in a Kodak Vigilant Junior Six-20 camera box, but some of the negatives appear to pre-date this camera. The negatives all appear to be 120 or 620 black and white film, with each negative measuring approximately 2 1/4" x 3 /4".

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