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109 x 152 mm.

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217 x 275 mm. Half length, full face portrait of Singhalese girl of the Rodiya caste. Photograph probably by W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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56 x 92 mm. Half length studio portrait of an aged Rhodia woman.

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285 x 185 mm (hand-coloured).

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Approximately 200 x 140 mm. Photogravure. Probably photographed by F. Skeen.

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206 x 153 mm. View looking down onto the Kandy cart road, with the railway line entering a tunnel further up the steep jungle-covered hillside. Photographer unknown, possibly W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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205 x 156 mm. View from the steep hillside looking down onto a broad curve in the Kandy cart road. Photographer unknown, possibly W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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205 x 148 mm. View from the same position as Y303B/47, looking down onto the Kandy Road, but more to the left and including a roadside bungalow. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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206 x 155 mm. View looking along the Kandy car road towards the Perforated Rock, through which the road runs. The Bible Rock is the flat topped mountain on the distant skyline. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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Quarter-plate. A little nearer sea than 163.

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285 x 255 mm.

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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.

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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.

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...