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Sri Lanka (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1189 Collections and/or Records:

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Cocoanut palms, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/11
Scope and Contents

265x215mm.

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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Coconut flowers, 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/69
Scope and Contents

156 x 77 mm. A joined stereo pair showing a studio photograph of coconut flowers on a table.

Dates: 1872
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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Coconut oil store, 1880 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/88
Scope and Contents

143 x 95 mm. Showing barrels of oil awaiting shipment, with a large cask being lifted by a mechanical hoist onto a bullock cart in the foreground.

Dates: 1880 - 1920
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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Coconut tree, 1880 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/61
Scope and Contents

280 x 211 mm. General view of a coconut plantation.

Dates: 1880 - 1920
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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Coconut trees, 1880 - 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/64
Scope and Contents

173 x 2110 mm. General view in a coconut plantation.

Dates: 1880 - 1920
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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Coffee blossom & berry, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G/39
Scope and Contents

143 x 101mm. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

Dates: 1870 - 1879
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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Coffee estate, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/50
Scope and Contents

283x215mm. A cropped photographer's stamp in the lower left corner reads 'Niagara Dimbula'. Probably by Scowen and Co.

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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Coffee estate coolies [historic title], 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G/44
Scope and Contents

278 x 217 mm. Group photograph of labourers and two European managers, with factory buildings in the background. The photograph is captioned on the negative ‘Glentilt coolies’. The Glentilt Estate was situated in the Maskeliya Valley in the Central Province. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

Dates: 1870 - 1879
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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Coffee stores and drying ground, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/51
Scope and Contents

277x222mm.

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/25
Scope and Contents

Outside the old cemetry. [Showing bullock cart].

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/26
Scope and Contents

The old cemetry. Colour of Arab [arch?] old [grey] stone roofs red. (Fisher).

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/27
Scope and Contents

Woman washing child in street.

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/28
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Seats of a native theatre at side of a road. Green palm leaves used for the roof. (Fisher).

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/29
Scope and Contents

'Coolies [labourers] going to work, 7 a.m.'

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/30
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'Coolies [labourers] working at road breaking for tram lines, [2nd Street] Maldene.'

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/31
Scope and Contents

My first servant, [John, a Madrassee Tamil]...in rickshaw.

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/32
Scope and Contents

Bullock cart in street near Railway Station. [Loaded with barrel marked Trieste].

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/33
Scope and Contents

The Royal College.

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/34
Scope and Contents

The Royal College.

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/35
Scope and Contents

Woman selling betel in the street

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/36
Scope and Contents

Singhalese girls in street. Notice mans couloured tortoiseshell comb pushed into his hair. Girls skirts are printed coloured patterns; bodices white. (Fisher). [Carriage and steam roller in background].

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/40
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Quarter- plate. Main street in the Pettah - trams and rickshaws. Pettah is business part of native quarter, Colombo. Bell tower is of gray stone; roofs are of red tiles; red tiles on distant building. (Fisher)

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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Colombo, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/42
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. C street near the foregoing (near view in 40) with small bullock cart.

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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Colombo, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/1
Scope and Contents

92mm diameter.

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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Colombo, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/3
Scope and Contents

93mm diameter.

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).