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J.S. Smithson collection on Samoa
Kandyan Chiefs 1874
Littledale India Collection
4 albums containing albumen prints. Y3022G-I were compiled by Harold Littledale and include photographs by Scowen and Co., A.T.W. Penn, Samuel Bourne and his successors, and others. Y3022I/A contains reproductions of the works of the Indian painter Raja Ravi Varma and was given to Littledale by the photographer V.G. Chiplonkar.
Modern Commonwealth photograph collection
Papers of the Colonial Office Visual Instruction Committee
Photograph collection of John Abercromby Alexander
Photographs of Ceylon
Framed photographs (frames 400 x 500 mm, photographs within mounts 230 x 280 mm). 2-7, 9 are marked as by the notable Colombo photographers 'Skeen and Co'; the others are not marked with any photographer's name. The captions are taken from those written on the mounts.
Photographs of Ceylon, 1960s
Prints of various sizes, with typewritten captions pasted on the reverse.
Photographs of Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], (?)1950s
A collection of prints mounted on card, measuring approximately 245 x 175 mm, with typewritten captions pasted onto the mounts. Photographer unknown.
Photographs of India
Photographs of North Africa and Asia
A large album of albumen prints. The prints are of various sizes and by various photographers. The compiler of the album is not known. Captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.
Plumbago in Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], c.1886
R. Elsy Collection on India and Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka]
An album of albumen prints by John Edward Sache, Thomas A. Rust, Nicholas and Co., and W.L.H. Skeen and Co. It was compiled by R. Elsy apparently during a tour in the 1880s through India and Ceylon. It includes pictures of Bombay, Delhi, Agra, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Allahabad, Benares, Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore and Ceylon. The prints' pencil captions have been used as titles; titles composed by the cataloguer have been enclosed in square brackets.
Roads in Bombay
Collection of photographs, including three duplicates, commissioned by McKenzies Limited to illustrate their highway construction work in Bombay, other regions of India and Ceylon.
Royal Tour of Commonwealth 1953-54
Sarvajnagunalankaraya
A palm-leaf manuscript from Sri Lanka containing a description of the virtues of the Omniscient One (Buddha). It is comprised of a collection of writings on various topics that were of interest to the devotee. This is a nineteenth-century copy of the original work.
Sir Alexander Johnston: administrative papers relating to Ceylon [Sri Lanka]
Comprises: four notebooks assembled by Johnston on aspects of law, history and administration in Ceylon; letter-book containing regulations relating to Roman Catholics in Ceylon; copies of law officers and counsels' opinions on various colonial acts. Note that 'Notebook V', extract from statement concerning the arrival of Chalias in Ceylon (presented by Professor Lee alongside the rest of the collection and listed in Donald Simpson's 1975 manuscript catalogue) is missing.
Sir Harold Smedley Collection
Diaries, official papers, correspondence and photographs
Sir Harry Brittain Collection
Sir John Bagnall Collection
The collection includes Bagnall's account of his evacuation from Singapore during the Second World War immediately before its fall to the Japanese in Feb. 1942. It is accompanied by photographs of the home he occupied at the time.
Sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom
'A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom', the last independent state in Sri Lanka, which had its capital at Kandy, c. 1835, 186 pages; a memorandum on the law of inheritance, 30 pages; rules for administering justice, 25 pages; Sir John Doyley's notes on the Kandyan law of inheritance, 8 pages; Singhalese law of inheritance, etc., 47 pages; and notes on the law of marriage, etc., 30 pages.
The Ceylon War Council, 1942
216 x 144 mm. The photograph is a group portrait of the members of the Ceylon War Council. The only figures identified are the Governor of Ceylon, Sir Andrew Caldecott (fourth from the left in the front row) and Brigadier Sir Patrick Alexander Bruce McKerron of the Malayan Civil Service. McKerron was seconded as Political Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, Ceylon during the Second World War.
The Queen Mary photograph collection on India
Travels in South Asia and Australia
The album contains a mixture of original photographs, hand-coloured postcards and clippings. Most have manuscript or printed captions. Subjects include travel, hunting, scenes of natural beauty, natural products, and notable places or buildings.
Views in Australia, Egypt, Aden, Asia and other places chiefly circa 1908-1915
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