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Album containing panoramic photographs, 300 x 115 mm (actual print surface 290 x 105 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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152 x 109 mm. General view of the exhibition buildings, with crowds of visitors on the lawn in the foreground. Opened by the Governor on September 13th, the exhibition comprised lectures, displays, demonstrations, and theatrical events, and closed with a dance at the Queen’s Hotel, Kandy on September 27th. For fuller details see ‘Handbook to the Ceylon Rubber Exhibition’ (Colombo 1906).

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Mr and Mrs C.L. Vizard

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Album containing panoramic photographs, 300 x 115 mm (actual print surface 290 x 105 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Album containing panoramic photographs, 300 x 115 mm (actual print surface 290 x 105 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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Album containing panoramic photographs, 300 x 115 mm (actual print surface 290 x 105 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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Album containing panoramic photographs, 300 x 115 mm (actual print surface 290 x 105 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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Album containing panoramic photographs, 300 x 115 mm (actual print surface 290 x 105 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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A view showing three men tapping rubber trees.

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The prints listed were chiefly from the files of the Photo Bureau, the majority being mounted on sheets of paper with substantial descriptions, and in many cases the negative attached. Titles and captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found. Captions supplied by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.

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91 x 138 mm. Full length studio portrait of a man wearing a dhotie and turban, and carrying a white umbrella. He has various white marks daubed on the upper half of his torso. The chetties or cornecopolies were originally from the Coromandel Coast and were mainly employed as tax collectors. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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97 x 135 mm. Full length seated studio portrait of the Kandyan chief, Rambukpota and his wife, dressed in ceremonial clothes. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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97 x 136 mm. Portrait of two children at the roadside. Photograph probably by Scowen & Co.

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410 x 260 mm pencil drawing (with slide) by Sidney R. Fever depicting the British India Steam Navigation Company ship which carried Weatherstone to Ceylon during 1950-51.

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101 x 145 mm.

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277 x 212 mm. General view of the cathedral from the road, a stone building with a square tower and aisles, opened in 1851 and little larger than an English parish church. Photographer unknown.

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209 x 275 mm. Studio photograph of plant specimen.

Scope and Contents Contains loose photographs relating to various of Christy's travels; some photographs are his own and some are by professional photographers. Subjects include: scenes on the Nile including pyramids; railway views in Kenya; rubber trees and cultivation in Nigeria, Uganda and the Cameroons; scenes in the Congo including sufferers of sleeping sickness and ethnic groups of Central Africa of shorter than average height described as Pygmies; scenes in India; scenes from travels in Norway,...

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208 x 280 mm. Captioned on negative ‘Cinchona hybrid tree’. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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278 x 211 mm. Showing cinchona trees on a plantation, with workers gathering seeds in baskets.

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279 x 212 mm. Showing workers on ladders posed in the act of shaving the bark under the supervision of two Europeans. A worker in the foreground is tying grass around the trunk of a shaved tree. The photograph illustrates the way in which cinchona was often interplanted with coffee on an estate.

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279 x 211 mm. Showing bushes of red bark and crown bark cinchona growing on an estate.

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98 x 136 mm. Half length studio portrait of a Cinghalese man with waist length hair and a heavy beard. Photograph by Scowen &Co. (although unsigned, the print caption 'Sinhalese' on the plate is in the same hand as the Scowen portraits at Y3022G/16-29).