Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...

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'No. 105' printed on reverse.

Scope and Contents 275 x 215 mm. View from the beach looking out towards the setting sun, with a fishing boat under sail silhouetted in the distance. The firm of Skeen & Co. made something of a speciality of pictorial and 'instantaneous' (viz., short exposures of around a second) views such as this, advertising from around 1880 pictures of 'The grandeur of the sea, breaking waves, and massive clouds, photographed instantaneously rendered with fine effect. These, with our MOONLIGHT SERIES, are studies in...

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274x212mm.

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92 x 128 mm.

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Inspection of a rubber tree on the estate.

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195 x 247 mm. Captioned on negative ‘Corypha umbraculifera’. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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The postcard is addressed to Mrs Roma Detwold (or Detmold). It contains a brief note and is signed 'GW' or 'GD'.

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Half-plate. (Mr Willis, the Director in foreground). [John Christopher Willis (1868-1958), Senior Assistant in Botany, Glasgow University 1894-1896; Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya 1896-1911; Director of the Botanic Gardens, Rio de Janeiro 1912-1915; author of various botanical publications].

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212 x 266 mm. View from a hillside looking out over a valley, with a flowering talipot palm in the foreground. Exact location unknown. Photographer unknown, either Scowen & Co. or W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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508 x 381 mm. watercolour. It illustrates a rough talipot palm hut, which often was the only shelter enjoyed by pioneer tea and coffee planters before a more comfortable hut or log cabin could be built.

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92 x 137 mm. Full length studio portrait of a woman.

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91 x 144 mm. Full length studio portrait of a bearded Cinghalese wearing a ‘skirt’ of patterned cloth and a circular hat of woven straw. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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90 x 138 mm. Half length seated studio portrait of a Tamil woman. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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94x140mm.

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130 x 96 mm. Group portrait. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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131x95mm.

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Quarter- plate.

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214 x 267 mm. Three quarter length portrait of a Tamil girl running her fingers through her hair. Photograph by W.H.L Skeen and Co.

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Quarter-plate. Negative useless. [No print].

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136 x 202 mm.

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96x142mm.

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110 x 152 mm.

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285 x 235 mm.