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Captioned 'No. 192' on the reverse.

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

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289 x 222 mm. View looking down on the moonstone which stands at the base of the flight of steps leading into the central building of Maha Sen’s Pavilions (which were probably put to religious use rather than secular occupation). The moonstone, a large semi-circular stone plate placed at the base of flights of steps, is an architectural component practically unique to Ceylon and this example is probably the finest that survives.

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92x114mm.

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141 x 109 mm. View from a hillside looking down onto the bridge, with loaded bullock carts on the road on the further side.

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155 x 114 mm. General view of the falls.

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174 x 102 mm. View from the hillside above the railway, looking down onto the line, with a settlement of thatched houses (probably labourers' quarters) ' in the dip below.

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169 x 100 mm. View looking across plantation land and giving an oblique view of the 'dark arches' at Mooragalla (see Y303A/17).

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170 x 99 mm. View looking along the line towards the mouth of the tunnel (350 yards). Work on this tunnel was started at both ends in 1863, the headings meeting in March 1866.

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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 94. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.

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197 x 148 mm. General view of the Mount Lavinia Hotel, some seven miles from Colombo. The main part of the hotel stands on a small headland overlooking the ocean with a single storied verandahed building, presumably providing additional accommodation. The main house was a two storey stone building with a balcony originally built for the Governor of Ceylon, Sir Edward Barnes.

Scope and Contents 212 x 153 mm. View looking along the line towards the bungalow of Mr Gallott at Kadigomowa, 55 miles from Colombo. The single storey thatched bungalow is situated beside the track and separated from it by a small banana plantation. A gang of labourers stands on the line in the middle ground. The figures standing in front of the bungalow are presumably Mr Gallott and his wife. No information on Gallott, apart from the fact that he was 'Government Engineer … connected with the work from the...

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128 x 165 mm.

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Monochrome postcards, mainly of Colombo scenes, published by W.H.L. Skeen and Co.

Scope and Contents 95 x 139 mm. Three quarter length studio portrait of a Mudaliyar in full costume. ‘The highest rank among them is the Mudaliyar. It is either borne ex-officio or is conferred by the Governor as an honourary distinction. On state occasions the Mudaliyars attend Government House in full costume, when they wear handsomely ornamented dirks, suspended from the shoulder by richly worked gold belts’, Arnold Wright, ‘Twentieth century impressions of Ceylon’ (London, 1907), p. 335. Photograph by...

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276 x 216 mm. Group portrait of Europeans posed in a garden, with a lake in the background. In front of the group stands a large tortoise. No identifications, although the figure second front left, front row, is possibly J.A. Alexander. Mutwall, with its lake, is in the northern part of Colombo.

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Quarter-plate. At Maharagalel on Kela Gange river.

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129 x 102 mm.

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The postcard is addressed to 'Mrs Roma Dold', London. It is signed 'GW' or 'GD'.

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143 x 98 mm. View of a single seat, two wheeled wooden carriage drawn by a buffalo. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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125 x 98 mm. View of a two wheeled wagon with a woven palm canopy, drawn by two buffaloes. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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280 x 213 mm. Roadside scene with a thatched hut set against a background of lush vegetation. A banana seller is seated on the mud verandah. Photograph by Scowen & Co.

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275x213mm. View looking along an unsurfaced road with mud and thatch houses on either side and three Cinghalese posed in the roadway.

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54 x 79 mm. A forest scene, probably in Sri Lanka.

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285 x 235 mm.