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Quarter-plate.

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275x215mm.

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A very dark view showing an unidentified man standing on a shady path. Location unknown, probably Sri Lanka.

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242 x 213 mm. Showing a section of the walled pathway which at one time spiralled to the top of the rock. Photograph probably by Joseph Lawton.

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Quarter-plate. East of Newara Eliya, and cattle.

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Quarter-plate. East of Newara Eliya, and cattle.

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Quarter-plate. East of Newara Eliya, and cattle.

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154 x 111 mm.

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153 x 111 mm.

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277 x 215 mm. Group photograph with his Excellency Brigadier-General Sir William Manning, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., C.B., Governor of Ceylon, as central figure who delivered a gracious message to the peasants assembled in their thousands to celebrate the signing of the peace treaty.

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167 x 99 mm. Similar to Y303A/32, but taken from a more distant viewpoint.

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Half-plate. Part of a clump of giant bamboos in the Government Gardens at Peredeniya showing both sides of the river - on opposite shore are the experiments grounds(Fisher). [The first Botanic Gardens in Ceylon were established at Slave Island and later moved to Kalutara. They were transferred to their present location in 1813. The photograph shows the giant bamboos on the banks of the Mahawelia Ganga, introduced into the gardens in 1858].

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Quarter-plate. Outside a shop in road.

Scope and Contents From the File: An album containing 106 collodio-chloride prints, a few outside the dates printed on the cover. Most are professional work of high quality. Not all relate to India. There is one photograph of Cambridge in 1902 (24); ten taken in Ireland during 1902-03, presumably during Douglas's leave, including sporting scenes and a wedding; six photographs of Sri Lanka (65-70); four of Hong Kong (71-74) and four of Paris (75-78) dated 1907.A number of items have been inserted, including amateur...

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This is a condensed version of the narrative held at 367/1, which has been edited by Jean Benitz (6 sheets).

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275 x 211 mm. View of Main Street, Pettah, with pedestrians, bullock carts and street traders in the roadway. On the right a small part of the Town Hall can be seen. On the left are the premises of W.D. Carolis; see Arnold Wright, ‘Twentieth century impressions of Ceylon’ (London, 1907) pp. 482-484. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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Framed photographs (frames 400 x 500 mm, photographs within mounts 230 x 280 mm). 2-7, 9 are marked as by the notable Colombo photographers 'Skeen and Co'; the others are not marked with any photographer's name. The captions are taken from those written on the mounts.

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Prints of various sizes, with typewritten captions pasted on the reverse.

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A collection of prints mounted on card, measuring approximately 245 x 175 mm, with typewritten captions pasted onto the mounts. Photographer unknown.

Scope and Contents A collection of photographs by Samuel Bourne, Bourne and Shepherd, and Charles Shepherd. The collection originally consisted of a heavy, custom-made wooden box containing large leather bound albums, each stamped in gold 'India 1872'. The photographs came from the firm of Bourne and Shepherd and this collection was put together by Marion and Co. It was presumably made up in commemoration of some event, possibly in memory of the Earl of Mayo who was murdered in 1872. The prints, most...

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A large album of albumen prints. The prints are of various sizes and by various photographers. The compiler of the album is not known. Captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.

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1-3 Bangkok
4-6 Wat Arun
7-12 Wat Pho
13 Wat Chet Yot
14 temple wall, Chiang Mai
15-16 Singora
17 rest house, Hat Yai
18-23 working elephants
24 waterfall
25 Bras Manao Island

29-30 Ceylon
31 Canadian Pacific Railway train

A small number of unidentified photographs from the entire Le Fleming collection are filed at the end of the box.

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279 x 211 mm. Showing a group of female workers seated on the ground sorting beans, with sacks of cocoa labelled ‘North Matale’ in the background.

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203 x 137 mm. General view of the interior of a coffee factory, with women seated in rows picking out damaged beans from 1 cwt. Bags. With a photograph of the Burns Monument pasted on the reverse.