Sri Lanka (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1243 Collections and/or Records:
Item
Picking ripe cherry, 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/27
Scope and Contents
211 x 279 mm. Showing a female estate worker plucking coffee.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
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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Pimenta citrifoilia, lemon-scented bay rum, 1890 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/175
Scope and Contents
113 x 153 mm.
Dates:
1890 - 1920
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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Pinanga patula [with] Hyphaene thebaica, Doum palm in background, 1890 - 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/153
Scope and Contents
105 x 151 mm.
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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Piper nigrum, 1890 - 1899
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/142
Scope and Contents
99 x 131 mm.
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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Piper nigrum covering jak tree (Artocarpus integrifolia), 1890 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/171
Scope and Contents
105 x 152 mm
Dates:
1890 - 1920
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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Piper sylvestris, wild pepper, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/151
Scope and Contents
112 x 104 mm, 2 copies.
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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[Piping cinnamon], 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/41
Scope and Contents
279 x 211 mm. A similarly posed photograph to Y303E/40, but showing female workers making cinnamon pipes. The cinnamon is placed on a low tripod formed from four sticks, and steadied with the operator’s foot while the cuticle is scraped off with a small curved knife. For a detailed description of the procedures seen in Y303E/40-44, see A.M. and J. Ferguson, All about cinnamon (Colombo, 1903) p 11-12.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
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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[Piping cinnamon], 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/86
Scope and Contents
202 x 137 mm.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
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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Plant houses and wild date palm [Peradeniya Botanical gardens], 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/75
Scope and Contents
277 x 210 mm. General view of lawn and plant houses, with a wild date palm (Phoenix sylvestris) in the foreground.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
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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Plantain in fruit, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/159
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Outside Mr. Sidgwick's bungalow at Medapola mine.
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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Plantation of camphor Trees, Hakgalla, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/122
Scope and Contents
Half- plate. The caption continues 'Coolie [i.e. labourer] clipping'.
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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Plantation scene: Washing the beans, 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/36
Scope and Contents
278 x 211 mm. Riverside scene showing labourers washing baskets full of cocoa beans under the supervision of two Europeans with a pile of beans awaiting treatment on the bank and a row of women carrying off the treated product.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
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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Planter asleep on his rope bed, 1980
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/5/12
Scope and Contents
295 x 225 mm pencil drawing by Gerard P. Cunningham illustrating the living conditions of early planters. It shows the planter in the centre of his wooden, mat roof hut, with a Chinese cook sitting before a low burning fire in a small ante-room.
Dates:
1980
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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Planter’s bungalow and cleared jungle planted with coffee, 1880 - 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/4/15
Scope and Contents
270 x 210 mm.
Dates:
1880 - 1885
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).
File
Planters past and present: Sydney William Moorhouse, 1958-11-14
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 103/8/5
Scope and Contents
A short memoir describing Moorhouse's 27 year career in the cultivation of tea, coffee and rubber in Ceylon and Malaya (2 sheets, two copies), accompanied by three letters to Hugh Bryson.
Dates:
1958-11-14
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Due to the fragile state of many of these papers, users must consult microfilm copies where available.
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[Planting out seedlings], 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/4
Scope and Contents
279 x 211 mm. Showing an estate labourer about to place a seedling into a prepared hole.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
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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[Platform next to water], 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/11/44
Scope and Contents
77 x 56 mm. Possibly at Colombo.
Dates:
1932
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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Ploughing, 1886
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/39
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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Pluckers, overseers and planters outside an early wood-clad tea factory, 1880 - 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365/4/16
Scope and Contents
270 x 210 mm.
Dates:
1880 - 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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Plucking over a field, 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/5
Scope and Contents
279 x 211 mm. General view looking across a field of tea plants, with female workers posed in the act of picking the leaf.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
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).
Item
Plucking tea, 1886
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/54
Scope and Contents
116x212mm.
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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Plucking the leaf, 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/6
Scope and Contents
211 x 277 mm. Close up of a single worker plucking a tea plant.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
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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Plucking the leaf, 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/7
Scope and Contents
210 x 278 mm. Similar to Y303E/6.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
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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[Plumbago] Barrels ready for shipment, about 8 cwts, 1880 - 1920
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/55
Scope and Contents
278 x 210 mm. Showing a courtyard filled with rows of barrels, with workers posed in the background.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
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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[Plumbago] Coopers making the barrels, all made from local grown wood, 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/54
Scope and Contents
277 x 212 mm. Showing coopers posed to demonstrate the various procedures involved in barrel making. See also Y303E/87.
Dates:
1880 - 1920
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).