Sri Lanka (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1242 Collections and/or Records:
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The crowds viewing the statue
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 28/21
Scope and Contents
358 x 190 mm (hand-coloured).
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Crow's Nest at Kraal, 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/129
Scope and Contents
269 x 210 mm. Showing the wooden lookout post, with the perimeter of the elephant stockade below.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Dalada Maligawa (Kandy); Temple of the Tooth, 1875
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/60
Scope and Contents
276 x 212 mm. View showing the main (west) façade of the Temple of the Tooth, with the entrance in the foreground and the Pattirippuwa, the octagonal building containing the Oriental Library, beyond.
Dates:
1875
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Dalizai, 1886
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/42
Scope and Contents
263x214mm.
Dates:
1886
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Devon Falls, Telawakele, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/112
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate.
Dates:
1907
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Devon Falls, Telawakele, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/113
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. (Tea plantations)
Dates:
1907
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The display of fireworks
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 28/25
Scope and Contents
290 x 240 mm (hand-coloured).
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The display of fireworks
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 28/26
Scope and Contents
285 x 235 mm (hand-coloured).
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The display of fireworks a beautiful set piece on the left May God Bless our Governor
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 28/24
Scope and Contents
275 x 237 mm (hand-coloured).
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The display of fireworks. Another beautiful set piece God Save the King
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 28/27
Scope and Contents
285 x 235 mm (hand-coloured).
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Elephant Rock at Kurunegala, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/73
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate.
Dates:
1907
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The embankment at the approach ot the entrance of Richmond Castle grounds
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 28/3
Scope and Contents
285 x 208 mm.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The entrance to Richmond Castle grounds
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 28/4
Scope and Contents
285 x 203 mm.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
The Fernery, Closenburg, Galle, 1894, 1884
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/113
Scope and Contents
291 x 237 mm. View of an interior fern garden, with a figure seated to the left of the central flowerbed.
Dates:
1884
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The fortified rock of Siguri [Sigiriya], Ceylon, 1870 - 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/33
Scope and Contents
272 x 216mrn. General view of the summit of Sigiriya with the path leading up the side of the rock in the foreground. Photographer unknown, probably Scowen &Co.
Dates:
1870 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The full complement of the Ceylon Government Lascoreen Guard-of-Honour in attendance on the Padikara Mudaliyar
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 28/6
Scope and Contents
345 x 255 mm (hand-coloured).
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Gal Wihare, or Rock Temple. Rock cut figure of Buddha in Cella of temple, 4ft 7ins high on pedestal 5ft 5 ins long, 3 ft 1 inch high; the chamber containing this figure is cut in solid rock, Pollanaruwa, 1870 - 1871
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/14
Scope and Contents
225 x 285 mm.
Dates:
1870 - 1871
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Hindoo [i.e. Hindu] Temples in C Street, the Pettah, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/48
Scope and Contents
Quarter- plate. [No print]. Painting only. Print missing.
Dates:
1907
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
File
The hundred best views of Ceylon: from photographs taken by the publishers, Colombo: Plâté, [1914?], 1914
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The collection consists of reproductions and originals of nineteenth-century prints, postcards, early and modern photographs, and watercolours which feature in two books on the tea industry written by John Weatherstone. Weatherstone’s works are distinguished for the wealth of their illustrations, which vividly bring to life the planter’s working and living conditions.
Dates:
1914
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
/
Weatherstone Collection
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The Inner Harbour, Trincomalee, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303G/7
Scope and Contents
274 x 209 mm. View from the upper storey of an unidentified house, looking across a garden to a jetty and the harbour beyond. The photograph appears to have been taken from a point N.E. of the Naval Yard looking towards it and the Ostenberg Ridge, with Little Sober Island in the right middle ground.
Dates:
1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Jeta Wanorama [Jetawanarama] East Front, with distant view [of] Kiri Dagoba, Pollannaruwa, 1870 - 1871
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/9
Scope and Contents
280 x 220 mm. View looking towards the ruins of the Jetawanarama Temple at Polonnaruwa, a massive red brick structure originally plastered with chunam. The view seen here shows the remains of the entrance between the two polygonal turrets. The Kiri Vihara Dagoba is in the background to the right.
Dates:
1870 - 1871
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The jewelled ivory casket containing the address of the Ceylon Planters Association, 1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 2/23
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...
Dates:
1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Kandy Perahera, Ceylon, 1960 - 1969
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303L/3
Scope and Contents
194 x 133 mm. View showing the annual procession of the tooth relic through the streets of Kandy.
Dates:
1960 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Kandyan Hall of Richmond Castle, arranged for the luncheon to His Excellency the Governor, Members of the Executive and Legislative Councils and other distinguished guest in honour of the function
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 28/11
Scope and Contents
283 x 342 mm (hand-coloured). Also menu of luncheon with portrait of the Governor, Sir John Anderson, and table plan.
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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The Kings Pavilion, Kandy : drawing room, 1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 2/13
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...
Dates:
1901-04-12 - 1901-04-15
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).