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*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1600_1699/calcutta/calcutta.html Calcutta] with images from [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/ Prof. Frances Pritchett’s webpage]
*''Calcutta Faces and Places in Pre-camera Days'' by Wilmont Corfield 1910 [http://www.archive.org/details/calcuttafacespla00corf Archive.org]
*[http://wwwhdl.library.upenn.edu/collections1017/sasiad/calcutta1947medren/ 4913420 Clyde Waddell photograph album of Calcutta , 1945: An American Military Photograph Album-1946] Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania. Clyde Waddell was the personal photographer of Lord Louis Mountbatten who was the Supreme Commander of Allied forces in India–Burma during WW2.<ref>[http://sohamchandra.blogspot.com/2015/06/calcutta-vs-kolkata-revisiting-yanks.html "Calcutta v/s Kolkata ... Revisiting A Yank's Memory"] June 6, 2015 Wunderlust. Retrieved 23 July 2016.</ref>*:[http://www.flickr.com/photos/udayms/sets/72157594177409787/ Calcutta 1947] . Photographs , at least some of which appear to come from the above album, on flickr.com.
*[http://www.greatmirror.com/index.cfm?countryid=563&chapterid=159&picturesize=medium Calcutta] from Great Mirror
*[http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=288984 Writers' Building, Kolkata] Photographs from Skyscrapercity.com
*John Williamson Palmer was an American [[Doctor|doctor]] and author who wrote c 1858 [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022250405#page/n337/mode/2up/ "The Chorus of the Palanquin Bearers"], a description of his transit through Cossitollah Street, Calcutta<ref> Reprinted in ''Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, littérateur, scientist'', page 330 by William Sloane Kennedy 1883, Archive.org, originally from ''Atlantic Monthly'', January 1858 </ref>. [http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12825SX1354O1.90703&profile=all&source=~!siarchives&view=subscriptionsummary&uri=full=3100001~!58937~!41&ri=1&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ipp=20&spp=20&staffonly=&term=Calcutta&index=.GW&uindex=&aspect=subtab157&menu=search&ri=1#focus Photograph of Man in Palki (Palanquin) in Calcutta] from the Smithsonian Institution. Click image to enlarge.
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RzxcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Rules and Regulations of La Martiniere, Founded in Calcutta Under the Will of Major General Claude Martin: With an Extract of the Will of the Testator, the Decree of the Supreme Court with Regard to the Same, and Other Documents''] 1835 Google Books
*There are many references to Calcutta in ''History of The Portuguese in Bengal'' by J J A Campos 1919 which is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. For barcode 99999990174384, the Contents is computer page 16. [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/5858 Pdf download][http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/6196 Another pdf download] DLI.
*For reports on Rats in Calcutta, in connection with plague research, see [[Scientific books online]].
*[https://archive.org/details/tomrawgriffinbur00doylrich ''Tom Raw, the Griffin: a burlesque poem, in twelve cantos: illustrated by twenty-five engravings, descriptive of the adventures of a cadet in the East India company's service, from the period of his quitting England to his obtaining a staff situtation in India''] by “ a Civilian and an Officer on the Bengal Establishment” (Sir Charles D'Oyly) 1828 Archive.org
