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Photographs taken in Burma, India and Sri Lanka.

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276 x 210 mm. Showing a large clump of giant bamboos growing on the bank of the Mahaweli Ganga in the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens. The largest of the bamboo family and attaining a height of 100-120 feet, this species is a native of Burma and was introduced into the gardens in 1858. This photograph is dated 1889 on the reverse.

Scope and Contents 258 x 208 mm. View looking seawards along the breakwater and showing the ‘Titan’ crane lowering concrete onto the berm beside the breakwater. An apron 24 feet wide composed of 10 bags of concrete was constructed to protect the top of the sea berm from disturbance. This work was completed between 11th February and 2nd April 1884, during which time 712 bags were deposited. The ‘Titan’ was a huge gantry crane which moved along two sets of track set into the breakwater. It was capable of...

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258 x 207 mm. View from near the root of the breakwater looking towards the warehouses, coaling sheds, etc at the base. The ‘Titan’ crane can also be seen at the base.

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96 x 138 mm. Showing a devil bird, a type of owl.

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274 x 216 mm. Showing a group of dancers and spectators, the two central figures wearing large carved wooden masks in the form of grotesque faces and flanked by musicians, some with violins others with the characteristic long drums. The photograph is clearly from Ceylon rather than Burma. Photographer unknown, probably Skeen and Co.

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57 x 95 mm. Full length portrait of two devil dancers posed beneath a tree.

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Appointment diaries for the years 1951, 1953-62, 1966 and 1970-75; and personal diary for 1955 .

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Diaries with inserted photographs, drawings and other items.

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The diary describes Brewster’s official duties, which included administration, legal affairs, finance, surveying construction and agricultural projects, visiting isolated communities, and commanding the constabulary. Brewster also gives a brief account of his colleagues and social life (100 sheets).

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Letters written by Fisher to Halford Mackinder describing his travels (circa 2,000 pages).

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Copy of a diary by Oppenheim describing the retreat of the army to Singapore, the city's surrender and his escape initially by sail boat to Sumatra, Sri Lanka and then Bombay. The diary is anonymous, but Mortimer Hay, who also participated in the escape, has identified its author as Oppeneheim, based upon internal evidence and comparisons of its manuscript with Oppenheim's handwriting. For Hay's account see RCMS 103/12/4.

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This is a copy of a diary describing Hay’s active service during the Malayan campaign, beginning with his joining the battery in mid-Dec. 1941. He saw action at Kuala Selangor and during the siege of Singapore. After its surrender, he escaped by ship on 16 Feb., reaching Sumatra on 21 Feb. and then Sri Lanka on 1 Mar. 1942. See RCMS 103/12/3 for another account of the same escape written by H.R. Oppenheim (21 sheets).

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98 x 147 mm.

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142 x 103 mm. Crushing apparatus driven by bullocks, (p. 205).

Scope and Contents Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

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279 x 211 mm. View looking across the courtyard of a coffee factory with beans being spread out to dry on the large drying platforms or ‘barbecues’.

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Half-plate. Weaving - Kandy.

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Half-plate. Weaving - Kandy.

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215 x 275 mm. Duplicate of Y302A/29. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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300 x 225 mm.

Scope and Contents Collection of 248 photographs, chiefly amateur. Most captions are derived from the original album pages or the printed titles of postcards. Photographs without measurements are approximately 80 x 60 mm in size, and this suggests that they may have been taken by the collector, with the others acquired from colleagues or purchased.The photographs, housed in two albums, were found pushed through the letterbox of Woodspring Museum. They had clearly suffered from damp, the albums were...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...

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'Education in the Roman Catholic missions in Ceylon in the second half of the nineteenth century (1842-1905)', a M.A. (Education) thesis for the University of London, 517 pages.

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277 x 214 mm. Platinum print showing captured elephants in a jungle stockade, with one of the animals hobbled to a tree. Bell visited Ceylon on short leave of absence from February - March 1921, and witnessed the capture of 16 wild elephants at Ratnapura on March 7. Photograph by Platé and Co.