Sri Lanka (nation)
Found in 1189 Collections and/or Records:
Mooragahagalla Bridge and road with train of bullock bandies, 1868
141 x 109 mm. View from a hillside looking down onto the bridge, with loaded bullock carts on the road on the further side.
Mooragahagalla Falls, 1868
155 x 114 mm. General view of the falls.
Mooragalla, 1867
174 x 102 mm. View from the hillside above the railway, looking down onto the line, with a settlement of thatched houses (probably labourers' quarters) ' in the dip below.
Mooragalla [or Moragalla], 1867
169 x 100 mm. View looking across plantation land and giving an oblique view of the 'dark arches' at Mooragalla (see Y303A/17).
Mooragalla Tunnel, 1867
170 x 99 mm. View looking along the line towards the mouth of the tunnel (350 yards). Work on this tunnel was started at both ends in 1863, the headings meeting in March 1866.
Mount Latvinia sea coast, Colombo, 1900
The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 94. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.
Mount Lavinia, nr Colombo [c 1875], 1875
197 x 148 mm. General view of the Mount Lavinia Hotel, some seven miles from Colombo. The main part of the hotel stands on a small headland overlooking the ocean with a single storied verandahed building, presumably providing additional accommodation. The main house was a two storey stone building with a balcony originally built for the Governor of Ceylon, Sir Edward Barnes.
Mr Gallott's bungalow, 1867
Mrs N.D.A. Silva Wijayasinghe
128 x 165 mm.
Mt. [i.e. Mount] Lavinia Hotel, Colombo, 1900
Monochrome postcards, mainly of Colombo scenes, published by W.H.L. Skeen and Co.
Mudaliyar, 1870 - 1879
Mutwall, Colombo, 1888, 1888
276 x 216 mm. Group portrait of Europeans posed in a garden, with a lake in the background. In front of the group stands a large tortoise. No identifications, although the figure second front left, front row, is possibly J.A. Alexander. Mutwall, with its lake, is in the northern part of Colombo.
My double canoe just after shooting rapids, 1907
Quarter-plate. At Maharagalel on Kela Gange river.
Myristica, fragrans, nutmeg. Showing fruit, nutmeg and mace, 1890 - 1899
129 x 102 mm.
Native Botique [i.e. Boutique] or Shop, Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], 1920 - 1929
The postcard is addressed to 'Mrs Roma Dold', London. It is signed 'GW' or 'GD'.
Native cart, 1870 - 1879
143 x 98 mm. View of a single seat, two wheeled wooden carriage drawn by a buffalo. Photograph by Scowen & Co.
Native cart, 1870 - 1879
125 x 98 mm. View of a two wheeled wagon with a woven palm canopy, drawn by two buffaloes. Photograph by Scowen & Co.
Native hut, 1870 - 1879
280 x 213 mm. Roadside scene with a thatched hut set against a background of lush vegetation. A banana seller is seated on the mud verandah. Photograph by Scowen & Co.
Native street scene [?Colombo], 1880 - 1889
275x213mm. View looking along an unsurfaced road with mud and thatch houses on either side and three Cinghalese posed in the roadway.
Neuralia, 1932
54 x 79 mm. A forest scene, probably in Sri Lanka.
New clearing, one year old rubber trees, 1900
285 x 235 mm.
Newara Eliya, 1907
Half-plate (landscape format). From St. Andrews Hotel. Photograph taken in bright sunlight in morning, painting made in heavy rain just before dark. (Fisher).
Newera Eliya, Ceylon, 1880 - 1889
267x203mm. View from the Rambodda Pass looking along the valley, with Nuwera Eliya Lake visible in the distance.
Newera Ellia [Nuwara Eliya], from Andrew’s Club 1872, 1872
276 x 212 mm. View looking across the plateau of Nuwara Eliya, with bungalows scattered here and there. Oliphant Cottage is identified in the middle distance at the right. Andrew’s Club is probably what later became the St Andrew’s Hotel, at the north end of the plain and commanding a view over the whole station.
News cuttings, 1973 - 1974
This file contains newspaper cuttings of Smedley in Sri Lanka, 1973-4; copies of ‘The British Bulletin’, January 1973, December 1973, January 1974, and March-April 1974; and the pamphlet, ‘Urgent Priorities for Nation Building: Some Biblical Perspectives’, (Ceylon Bible Society, 1974?).