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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 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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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.

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278 x 220 mm. A platinum print showing an elephant hobbled to a tree in a jungle stockade. Photograph by Platé and Co.

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213x268mm. Showing the open-sided wooden thatched construction, set in deep forest and crowded with European spectators. The wall of the stockade, into which the wild elephants are herded, can be seen at the right.

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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'Elephants at Panebokke Walauwa Gampola'.

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99 x 76 mm. Showing three elephants and their keepers on the river bank near Kandy.

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Quarter-plate. At Kuraita, in the river that flows down from Adams Peak District.

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Quarter-plate. At Kuraita, in the river that flows down from Adams Peak District.

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Quarter-plate. At Kuraita, in the river that flows down from Adams Peak District.

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Quarter-plate. [No print]. Print missing.

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59 x 105 mm. Showing two elephants with their keepers, with Bell seated in a carriage in the foreground. A photograph probably taken in Ceylon during Bell's visit to Asia in 1925.

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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59 x 104 mm. Showing elephants blocking the passage of Bell's motor car on a country road in Ceylon.

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59 x 105 mm. Showing elephants blocking the passage of Bell's motor car on a country road in Ceylon.

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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111 x 151 mm.

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102 x 136 mm.

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280x211mm.

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278x215mm.

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108 x 148 mm.

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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'Carved stone balustrade, guard figures, steps, and moonstone, at Anu-radha-pura'.

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241 x 189 mm. A fine landscape looking along the Kotmalee Pass towards the plateau of Nuwara Eliya from the Rambodda Pass.

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277 x 210 mm. Showing the entrance and lodge at Peradeniya Royal Botanical Gardens. A further note reads: ‘Walls covered with Thunbergia grandiflora. Writer' [John Abercromby Alexander] beside his carriage [just inside gates].