212 x 276 mm. View looking along the line at the Kadugannawa Incline at Sensation Rock, with a locomotive rounding the bend in the track. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

Quarter-plate. At Madapola.

205 x 154 mm. Showing a roadside stall selling fruit and vegetable produce.

Quarter-plate. Two very large Denabys pumps, and in the foreground, some fine lumps of plumbago just brought up.

279 x 211 mm. Showing female workers picking through sifted and fired tea for grading before packing and shipment.

The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'This rock was converted into a palace and fortress by King Kasyapa in the 4th Century A.D.'.

The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'This rock was converted into a palace and fortress by King Kasyapa in the 4th Century A.D.'.

278x216mm.

91 x 143 mm. Full length studio portrait of a Cinghalese woman. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

96 x 137 mm. Full length studio portrait of a bearded Cinghalese man posed with an umbrella. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

99 x 142 mm. Head and shoulders studio portrait of a Singhalese woman. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

147x200mm. Half length portrait of two girls, one full face, one in profile.

279 x 215 mm. A roadside view of the wedding party, posed in front of a bungalow in European style with a tiled roof and porticoed entrance. The bride, groom and wedding party are dressed in European clothes. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

101 x 75 mm. Showing Sir William Manning (1863-1932), Governor of Ceylon 1918-25, De la Cour (no information) and Bell's A.D.C. George Lightfoot seated around a table outside a rest house in Ceylon.

279 x 211 mm. Showing a worker operating a fan belt driven ‘Sirocco’ tea dryer which arrests the fermentation of the leaf (see Y303E/12) and evaporates remaining moisture.

Quarter-plate. The pole is placed in position before the building commences and will only be removed at the close. Pole is of Rucatoria wood, stripped of bark, and decorated at tip with a piece of palm leaf. When building is finished, Buddhist priest will come and chant sacred words, and take away the luck pole. (Fisher).

275 x 215 mm. View looking along Skinner's Road, an unsurfaced tree lined thoroughfare at the E side of the central portion of Colombo and running N to S in an arc from the harbour to the lake.

202x137mm. Showing two small thatched houses set in cleared forest, probably at the same location as the elephant kraal.

278 x 216 mm. View looking along the line towards where a group of labourers and Europeans are gathered round a breach in the line, probably caused by heavy rainfall. The viaduct referred to is the Allagalla Viaduct, 59.5 miles out from Colombo at a height of 1,120 feet above sea level (see Y303A/18). Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

218 x 277 mm. View looking along the line at Sensation Rock, where a major landslide has deposited large sections of the cliff above onto the track. This landslide took place on 14th July 1869 and interrupted services for 19 days. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

140 x 94 mm. Showing three snake charmers seated on the ground practising their craft. Photographer
unknown, probably Scowen & Co.

234 x 217 mm. Studio portrait of two Indian snake charmers playing to their snakes.

188 x 132 mm.

57 x 94 mm. Rear view of the figure seen in Y303B/76, showing the style of hair dressing and the tortoiseshell comb.

93 x 129 mm.