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Tables, articles and other material regarding trees and woods in Ceylon, Fiji and New Zealand, and in general.

Scope and Contents 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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A view showing a group (Maude, PCA and WD?) posed among jungle scenery, probably in Sri Lanka.

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169 x 101 mm. View looking along a jungle track. Allagalla Peak is not visible owing to fading.

Scope and Contents 214 x 151 mm. View looking along the line towards Dawson's Monument: ‘True and animated is the photograph by Messrs. Slinn of the top of the incline with Dawson's Monument as the central object: poor Newton's Bungalow on one side and groups of Natives drawn up on the other in front of the goods station, in course of construction, as shown by the scaffolding and the workmen on the walls’ (p. 13). C.H. Newton was an engineer who died before the railway was completed. Dawson's Monument, a 125...

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196 x 122 mm. View looking along the Pass with Dawson's Monument (largely faded) in the distance. For a note on W.F. Dawson see Y303A/31.

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277x41mm.

Scope and Contents 209 x 155 mm. View looking across the Kalany River, 3 miles outside Colombo towards the iron railway bridge, an 800 foot structure on 8 screw piles and 12 brick piers, built at a cost of about £16,000. ‘Messrs. Slinn's photograph of the Railway Bridge across the Kalany is a fine picture characteristic of the rich foliage which lines the banks of the river and of the rafts which float on its bosom [in foreground], but unfortunately the effect is to convey the idea that the bridge runs...

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154 x 108 mm. View of the dam at Kalawewa Tank, with restoration work in progress.

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156 x 111 mm.

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Half-plate (landscape format). Two coolies on steps at crown [corner] of large reservoir tank at Malaga, Kande. See colouring of trees in painting 38. Sloping side of reservoir is green grass; steps are of white cement. Where man is working, bricks are red with white mortar. (Fisher)

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206x274mm.

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261x212mm.

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123x94mm.

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95 x 130 mm.

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279x215mm.

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265x215mm.

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268 x 209 mm. View looking westwards over the central part of Kandy. In the left foreground is the Temple of the Tooth (see Y3022G/6) with the Esplanade and the north end of the lake beyond. At the right can be seen the tower of St Paul's Church with Colombo Street beyond and the military quarters on the hill in the background.

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268 x 209mm. View looking westwards over the central part of Kandy. In the left foreground is the Temple of the Tooth (see Y3022G/6) with the Esplanade and the north end of the lake beyond. At the right can be seen the tower of St Paul's Church with Colombo Street beyond and the military quarters on the hill in the background.

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213 x 158 mm. View looking westwards over the central part of Kandy.

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213 x 158 mm. View looking westwards over the central part of Kandy.

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174 x 104 mm. View looking westwards over the central part of Kandy.

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277 x 212 mm. View looking eastwards over the town of Kandy from the military headquarters, with the lake at the right and the centre of Kandy directly in front of the viewer. The three streets seen running east to west are, from the left, King Street, Colombo Street and Ward Street. Probably by Scowen & Co.

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276 x 216 mm. View looking northwest from above the south shore of the lake. It looks over the western half of the lake towards the town. The military headquarters can be seen in the distance. The view forms, when joined with plate 3, a panoramic view of the town.

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276 x 216 mm. View from the same position (Gregory Road) as plate 2, looking across the lake to the eastern part of Kandy. The view forms, when joined with plate 2, a panoramic view of the town. Photograph by Scowen & Co.