Asia (continent)
Found in 15914 Collections and/or Records:
Collecting the juice of the Upas Tree, 1912
Glass plate slides to illustrate a talk given by Cunynghame to the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. A transcript of the lecture, comprising a title page and 58 pages of text, is stored at RCMS 63/22.
College in Kaiser Bagh Lucknow, 1880 - 1889
277x203mm. View looking along the garden with its ornamental pool towards the buildings of the Canning College, situated within the grounds of the Kaiser Bagh. The college was founded in 1864 for the education of sons of the nobility, and the buildings erected between 1867 and 1878. The college later became the University of Lucknow.
Collyer Quai, 1900
272 x 214 mm. A view looking north along Collyer Quay towards Johnston's Pier and the Exchange buildings, with rickshaws parked and plying their trade in the roadway.
Collyer Quai, 1907
144 x 95 mm. View looking along Collyer Quay, Singapore.
Collyer Quay, Singapore, 1880 - 1889
274 x 207 mm. View from Johnston's Pier (see BAM 10/39) looking west along the waterfront towards Gilfillan's Wood and coaling jetty. Waterfront buildings unidentified. Photographer unknown, probably G.R. Lambert & Co.
Colombo, 1886
92mm diameter.
Colombo, 1886
93mm diameter.
Colombo, 1886
94mm diameter.
Colombo, 1886
94mm diameter.
Colombo, 1907
Outside the old cemetry. [Showing bullock cart].
Colombo, 1907
The old cemetry. Colour of Arab [arch?] old [grey] stone roofs red. (Fisher).
Colombo, 1907
Woman washing child in street.
Colombo, 1907
'Coolies [labourers] working at road breaking for tram lines, [2nd Street] Maldene.'
Colombo, 1907
My first servant, [John, a Madrassee Tamil]...in rickshaw.
Colombo, 1907
Bullock cart in street near Railway Station. [Loaded with barrel marked Trieste].
Colombo, 1907
The Royal College.
Colombo, 1907
The Royal College.
Colombo, 1907
Woman selling betel in the street
Colombo, 1907
Singhalese girls in street. Notice mans couloured tortoiseshell comb pushed into his hair. Girls skirts are printed coloured patterns; bodices white. (Fisher). [Carriage and steam roller in background].
Colombo, 1907
Quarter- plate. Main street in the Pettah - trams and rickshaws. Pettah is business part of native quarter, Colombo. Bell tower is of gray stone; roofs are of red tiles; red tiles on distant building. (Fisher)
Colombo, 1907
Quarter-plate. C street near the foregoing (near view in 40) with small bullock cart.
Colombo, 1907
Seats of a native theatre at side of a road. Green palm leaves used for the roof. (Fisher).
Colombo, 1907
'Coolies [labourers] going to work, 7 a.m.'
Colombo, 1909
Showing sailing vessels moored in Colombo Harbour.
Colombo, 1880 - 1889
272x213mm. View looking south-west across the harbour towards the Fort area from Mutwal, with a coconut plantation in the foreground and shipping at anchor in the bay. Prominent on the further side of the harbour are the Customs House (the pedimented building to the right of centre), Queen's House (behind and to the left of the Customs House), and the lighthouse and clock tower in Chatham Street.