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Sri Lanka (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 1243 Collections and/or Records:

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Kandy, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022U/43
Scope and Contents

276 x 215 mm. View looking W along Colombo Street, Kandy, a commercial thoroughfare lined with small shops in the centre of the town.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/120
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272x207mm. Similar view to Y3022G/1, looking eastwards over Kandy from the Military Barracks. The King's Pavilion can be seen at the left.

Dates: 1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy and the lake, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Ceylon/10
Scope and Contents

The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 102. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy and the Lake, 1870 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/14
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268 x 210 mm. View looking eastwards over the town from the military quarters and showing King Street, Colombo Street and Ward Street running west-east across the town. Photographer unknown, either Scowen & Co or W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

Dates: 1870 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy art ware, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/3
Scope and Contents

282 x 216 mm. View showing shelves lines with cast images of the Buddha. These artefacts are possibly part of the collection of Hugh Nevill of the Ceylon Civil Service: photographs of this, ‘showing nearly every description of Kandyan Art-work in Silver, Copper, Brass, carved Ivory, Wood, stone,’ were advertised by W.L.H. Skeen & Co in the 'Mercantile and Planting Directory' for 1891-92. See also Y303B/85-87. Photograph probably by W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy art ware, betel boxes, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/87
Scope and Contents

276 x 215 mm. Showing a display of carved betel boxes, possibly from the collection of Hugh Nevill (see Y303B/3). Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy art ware, wood rice bowls, 1890

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/86
Scope and Contents

276 x 212 mm. Showing a display of richly carved wooden utensils, possibly part of the collection of Hugh Nevill, Ceylon Civil Service (see Y303B/3).

Dates: 1890
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy, Buddhist temple, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/30
Scope and Contents

279x215mm.

Dates: 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy, Ceylon, 1870 - 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302A/11
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271 x 207 mm. View from the hills to the south looking northwest over the lake and towards the town. The Library and Assembly Rooms are housed in the building projecting into the lake, with the Esplanade to the left and the main part of the town at the west end of the lake. The military barracks can be seen on the hill at the extreme left of the print. Photographer unknown, either Scowen & Co. or W.L.H. Skeen &Co.

Dates: 1870 - 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy-Colombo Railway Line, 1867

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/39
Scope and Contents

273 x 208 mm. View looking down the line towards the overhang of the ‘Lion’s Mouth’ (see Y303B/36) with labourers standing beneath the rock and two Europeans in the foreground. This photograph is reproduced in G.F. Perera, ‘The Ceylon Railway’ (Colombo, 1925), p 141, with a caption stating that the photograph was taken ‘during construction’. See also Y303B/45 and 48.

Dates: 1867
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy from above the lake, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/99
Scope and Contents

Half-plate. Missing.

Dates: 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy from above the Lake, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/99A
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format).

Dates: 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy from above the lake, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/100
Scope and Contents

Half-plate (landscape format). Slightly different view. Either can be coloured from painting. (Fisher).

Dates: 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy, from the Western Redoubt, 1872, 1872

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303B/58
Scope and Contents

276 x 188 mm. A similar view to Y3022G/1, but with King Street out of the picture to the left. Photographer unknown, but probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

Dates: 1872
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy lake, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/25
Scope and Contents

282x217mm.

Dates: 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Kandy Lake], 1867

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303A/38
Scope and Contents

75 x 96 mm. View from the south shore of the lake looking towards the western end.

Dates: 1867
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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[Kandy Lake], 1867

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303A/40
Scope and Contents

75 x 96 mm. View from the south shore of the lake looking towards the western end.

Dates: 1867
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy lake 1888, looking west, 1888

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/103
Scope and Contents

145 x 109 mm. General view looking westwards across the lake, with the Old Garrison cemetery in the foreground.

Dates: 1888
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy lake and library, 1900

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Ceylon/11
Scope and Contents

The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 107. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.

Dates: 1900
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy Lake & cabbage palms, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022G/5
Scope and Contents

280 x 212 mm. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

Dates: 1870 - 1879
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy. Mohammedan [i.e. Muslim] Bier, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/78
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. Waiting outside house of deceased. Covering cloth is a warm green - tiles are red. (Fisher).

Dates: 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy Road from Mooragalla line of railway, 1867

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303A/41
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171 x 101 mm. View looking down onto the road, with jungle in the foreground: ‘Not so successful in detail in consequence of overpowering vegetation in the foreground, is a view of the Kandy road from Moragalla Bridge. It is singularly difficult to distinguish bits of road from glimpses of river in photographs, unless objects are reflected vividly in the water in the latter case’ (p. 12).

Dates: 1867
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy, the lake, 1886

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/28
Scope and Contents

283x217mm.

Dates: 1886
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandy, the Lake and Tricomalie Street, Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/411
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1890 - 1899
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Kandyan Brass Worker, 1907

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/105
Scope and Contents

Quarter-plate. To left of picture is an ancient Kandyan window made of hard Ceylon teak. (This window was brought in, in order to be photographed). (Fisher).

Dates: 1907
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).