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Quarter-plate. At mid-day on a bed raised on bamboo poles such one uses often in Ceylon.

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55 x 79 mm.

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196 x 146 mm. View looking across the garden towards the house, with two servants standing in the foreground and tea bushes growing on the hillside beyond. The house is a two storey affair with a corrugated iron roof.

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154 x 110 mm.

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278 x 209 mm. Showing a cerea rubber tree growing between rows of Liberian coffee.

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584 x 270 mm. pen and ink.

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277 x 218 mm. View from above looking down onto the Maskelya Falls. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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A scrapbook album containing prints relating to Bell's Governorship of Mauritius from his return from leave in 1919 to his final departure in 1924. There are also some scenes in east Africa and Britain during his 1919 leave and some of a visit to Ceylon (now known as Sri Lanka) in 1921.

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255x215mm.

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99 x 148 mm.

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154 x 111 mm. In the Pavilion gardens, Newer Eliya.

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100 x 135 mm.

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Quarter-plate. View from the great Dagoba, Mihintale looking west over jungle and Anuradhapura.

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Quarter-plate. View from the great Dagoba, Mihintale looking west over jungle and Anuradhapura.

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Quarter-plate. Print spoiled.

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95 x 120 mm.

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A view looking along the road towards the bungalow and its garden.

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289 x 227 mm. View looking across the lake, with a small island in the distance. Situated 40 miles SE of Anuradhapura, the lake of Minneriya forms the remains of an artificial tank created by Maha Sen in A.D. 275.

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283 x 213 mm. View looking towards the tree-covered Dagoba, built in B.C. 161 by King Duttugaimunu, at the S.W. corner of the Anuradhapura ruins. The steps of the main entrance are in the foreground. See James G. Smither 'Architectural remains, Anuradhapura, Ceylon' p 19-22. Photograph probably by Joseph Lawton.

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275 x 212 mm. View looking down on the elephants and crowds progressing through the streets of Kandy during the Perahera ceremony.

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Includes a number of scenes on board ship in 1914 and some miscellaneous unbacked slides which are largely duplicates, or similar to, those in other boxes.

Scope and Contents A collection of loose prints of various sizes (mainly snapshots) by various photographers. The prints are largely uncaptioned and are mainly duplicates of prints in the other parts of the collection. The prints have been grouped chronologically thus: Uganda (1-47), Northern Nigeria (49-68), Caribbean (69-88), Mauritius (89-111), miscellaneous (112-117). The collection also includes 10 original negatives which are listed with the prefix 'Y3011G/ON'. Two geographical anomalies have crept...

Scope and Contents This broad heading has been used to cover a substantial collection of loose prints, dating chiefly from the period 1960-1982, but including a few of earlier date. The majority come from the files of the RCS journal known successfully as ‘United Empire,’ ‘Commonwealth Journal,’ and ‘Commonwealth,’ in which some were published, but there are also items obtained for inclusion in the exhibition ‘Commonwealth in Focus’ in 1982 and these are indicated by CIF and the catalogue number in the...

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The caption printed on the reverse reads: 'The Ceylon Crocodile is an inhabitant of the rivers and tanks, and is found in most parts of the country'.

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87 x 109 mm. Print composed of a montage of nine portraits of figures eminent in the history of Ceylon. The men represented here are: Sir R. Wilmot Horton, General Fraser, Sir Henry Ward, Sir Charles MacCarthy, Sir Edward Barnes, Sir Hercules Robinson, William F. Faviell, Major Skinner and G.L. Molesworth.