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279 x 211 mm. Showing a worker operating a rolling machine, with a wooden hopper placed beneath to catch the product. The rolling machine breaks up the cellular formation of the leaf in order to liberate the juices.

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of platinum prints, 280 x 225 mm, mounted in a volume bound in red leather with 'The Royal Visit to Ceylon April, 1901' and the Royal Arms on the front cover. They are by various photographers and record the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later H.M. King George V and H.M. Queen Mary) 12-15 April, 1901. The prints are mounted on cardboard pages and have printed captions, which have been recorded as found. They may include language which is...

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Printed key to 26 persons in the group.

Scope and Contents A collection of photographs by various photographers. Captions are derived from information on the back of some photographs and from official programmes and published books on the tour.H.M. King George VI was anxious to undertake a major post-war tour of the Commonwealth, but was prevented by ill-health. It was therefore agreed that H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth and H.R.H. Duke of Edinburgh would travel to East Africa, Australia and New Zealand, and they flew from London airport on the...

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Monochrome postcards of the ruined cities of Ceylon, published by Platé Ltd.

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281 x 210 mm. Showing the ruins of an unidentified building. Photographer unknown, possibly Joseph Lawton.

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211 x 277 mm. Showing the berries within the pods.

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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.

Scope and Contents 209 x 158 mm. View looking along the Mahaweli Ganga towards the Satinwood Bridge, a structure 205 feet in length and constructed in a single arch formed by interlocking members of Satinwood and Millila. The graceful bridge was built under the superintendence of Colonel (later Lieutenant General) John Fraser in 1826-33. It was replaced by an iron structure in 1905, ‘of all the exquisitely artistic pictures we ever scanned one of finest is the landscape, (for such it is in the highest sense),...

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166 x 98 mm.

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of platinum prints, 280 x 225 mm, mounted in a volume bound in red leather with 'The Royal Visit to Ceylon April, 1901' and the Royal Arms on the front cover. They are by various photographers and record the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later H.M. King George V and H.M. Queen Mary) 12-15 April, 1901. The prints are mounted on cardboard pages and have printed captions, which have been recorded as found. They may include language which is...

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288 x 224 mm. View of a seated figure of Buddha carved from rock face at Pollannaruwa, with a European figure reclining in the statue’s lap as an indication of scale.

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211 x 265 mm. View looking along the line at Sensation Rock, with a locomotive just rounding the bend. At the left is a sheer drop, at the right a vertical cliff face. Beyond the Deckande Bank the line curves up and round the ‘Conical Hill’ on the Kadugannawa Incline near the top of which, at a height of 1300 feet, is Sensation Rock, so named from the sensation it induces that the train is about to plunge over the edge.

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216 x 275 mm. Duplicate of Y303E/90. This print shows more of the surrounding rockface.

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252x210mm.

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of platinum prints, 280 x 225 mm, mounted in a volume bound in red leather with 'The Royal Visit to Ceylon April, 1901' and the Royal Arms on the front cover. They are by various photographers and record the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later H.M. King George V and H.M. Queen Mary) 12-15 April, 1901. The prints are mounted on cardboard pages and have printed captions, which have been recorded as found. They may include language which is...

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212 x 276 mm. View looking along the line at the Kadugannawa Incline at Sensation Rock, with a locomotive rounding the bend in the track. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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Quarter-plate. At Madapola.

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205 x 154 mm. Showing a roadside stall selling fruit and vegetable produce.

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Quarter-plate. Two very large Denabys pumps, and in the foreground, some fine lumps of plumbago just brought up.

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279 x 211 mm. Showing female workers picking through sifted and fired tea for grading before packing and shipment.

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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'This rock was converted into a palace and fortress by King Kasyapa in the 4th Century A.D.'.

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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'This rock was converted into a palace and fortress by King Kasyapa in the 4th Century A.D.'.

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278x216mm.

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91 x 143 mm. Full length studio portrait of a Cinghalese woman. Photograph by Scowen & Co.