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259 x 210 mm View from near the head looking towards the completed lighthouse and landing pier, with the harbour entrance beyond. A photograph taken from a similar viewpoint to Y303C/8.

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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.

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An album containing albumen prints. The album was originally two separate volumes which were rebound into one in 1982. The prints show views of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India (Madras, Lucknow, Lahore, Naini Tal, Bombay) and Egypt.

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100 x 142 mm.

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76 x 144 mm.

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105 x 147 mm.

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211 x 275 mm. View of a coco-de-mer palm, probably in Peradeniya Botanical Gardens.

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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152 x 102 mm.

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210 x 278 mm. View from ground level looking down the narrow mineshaft and showing the wooden scaffolding used by the labourers to reach the workings.

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218 x 275 mm. View from the road below, showing the falls plunging over a cliff face. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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Half-plate (landscape format). Yapahu school. Building white; old red tiles showing on top. [School children grouped in front of building].

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Half-plate. Yapahu school. One print of this to S. H. M. Samarakoon, Maho School, Yapahu, Ceylon. (Fisher) [School children grouped in front of building].

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242 x 192 mm. View looking along the street (? Chatham Street), with cars and rickshaws to the foreground.

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143 x 95 mm. Showing Singhalese workers posed to demonstrate the various procedures involved in barrel making.

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279x214mm.

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97 x 139 mm. Full length studio portrait of a young Malay girl seated cross legged on a piece of woven cloth. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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Trading vessels from the Maldive Islands. The vessels are part of a trading fleet from the Maldive Islands. An annual tribute is brought from these Islands and ceremoniously presented to the Governor of Ceylon at Colombo. (Fisher).

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Trading vessels from the Maldive Islands. The vessels are part of a trading fleet from the Maldive Islands. An annual tribute is brought from these Islands and ceremoniously presented to the Governor of Ceylon at Colombo. (Fisher).

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Trading vessels from the Maldive Islands. The vessels are part of a trading fleet from the Maldive Islands. An annual tribute is brought from these Islands and ceremoniously presented to the Governor of Ceylon at Colombo. (Fisher).

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Trading vessels from the Maldive Islands. The vessels are part of a trading fleet from the Maldive Islands. An annual tribute is brought from these Islands and ceremoniously presented to the Governor of Ceylon at Colombo. (Fisher).

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Half-plate. Few miles from Ratnapura. Elephant helping to build large new bridge.

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Half-plate. Elephant carrying large stone. Adams Peak in distance. [Adams Peak not visible]

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Quarter-plate. Elephant working at new bridge.

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Quarter-plate. Elephant working at new bridge.