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Showing black crows flying around.

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Landscape format. Looking back at the Ortona.

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Approaching the landing stage [taken from small boat].

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Approaching the landing stage [taken from small boat].

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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Postcards mostly showing views in India.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with limited, largely undated captions.

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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A collection of captioned photographs in an album. The photographs are views in Calcutta, Barrackpur, Simla, Ootacamund, Tanjore, Trichinopoly and Ceylon.

Scope and Contents Collection of photographs covering life in India, its people and buildings and also the new Delhi and Karachi airports. There is a two page list of 30 handwritten captions included in this collection (20/2/12/145), which appear to relate to photographs 46-75, which for the most part haven't been used, as some are illegible and also it is not clear which caption relates to which photograph on each page in the album. There are also three other paper lists inserted in the album...

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Album containing prints, of a total size of 300 x 185 mm. (actual print surface 260 x 165 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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Album containing panoramic photographs, 300 x 115 mm (actual print surface 290 x 105 mm.), on linen hinges bound by the India Office Library. Includes typed list of contents bound in at the beginning of the album.

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An album of albumen prints probably taken in the 1880s by varied photographers including Bourne and Shepherd, W L H Skeen and Co. and G.R. Lambert & Co. Numbers 1-39 are of India; 40-51 of Ceylon; and 52-59 of Singapore. Numbers at the end of individual photograph entries refer to the photographers' catalogue numbers.

Scope and Contents Black-and-white photographs of buildings, locations and the native population. The majority of the photographs are labelled, but most are undated. They include some taken in Ceylon, Egypt and Morocco. The locations featured include Agra, Chandpur, Delhi, Fatehpur Sikri, Ismailia, Jaipur, Lucknow, Madras and Tangier. The nature of the photographs would suggest that they were taken for personal interest rather than in connection with Pringle's work. There is a short descriptive note at...

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277x210mm.

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278 x 210 mm. General view of the india rubber tree or rambong showing the root system. Probably photographed at Peradeniya Botanical Gardens.

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276 x 217 mm. Showing the base of the trunk and the root system of an India rubber tree in Peradeniya Botanical gardens.

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266 x 213 mm. A view from the rocky shoreline looking across the Inner Harbour where several ships are moored towards the town of Galle on the far side. For centuries Galle, with its large but treacherous harbour, was the chief trading port of Ceylon, especially under Portuguese rule in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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278 x 211 mm. At the left are ‘Sirocco’ drying machines (see Y303E/15), with rolling machines to the right, and fermenting tea laid out on hessian mats in the foreground.

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214 x 158 mm. View looking along the platform, with several figures posed for the photographer on the platform at the right. This view illustrates well the use of decorative wrought iron in the construction of the station, (Perera, ‘The Ceylon railway’, p. 63).

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The caption printed on the reverse reads: 'Isu-ru-muni-ya Temple and Dagoba at Anu-radha-pura 3rd Century B.C.'.

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'No. 97' printed on reverse.

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A view showing a European in a pith helmet standing beside a motor car, in the back seat of which sits a woman.

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213 x 279 mm. Captioned on negative ‘Artocarpus integrifolia’. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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210 x 271 mm. General view of the jewel encrusted casket, shaped in the form of a dagoba and intended to contain the tooth relic in the Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth) at Kandy. A clipping from an unidentified paper, stuck into the album, gives details of the precious stones and metals contained in the casket and canopy. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.