Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 168-346 (originally there were 165). Added numbers are: 200A, 263A, 270A-D, 280A, 296A, 335A-B; spoiled: 234; not used: 170, 172, 173, 175, 199, 203, 204, 216, 226, 228, 240-242, 253, 255, 257, 258, 262, 300, 314, 325, 326, 334; missing: 333. Numbers 270A-D and 280A are by Hutchins. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 280A follows 337. Subjects covered in this album...

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 168-346 (originally there were 165). Added numbers are: 200A, 263A, 270A-D, 280A, 296A, 335A-B; spoiled: 234; not used: 170, 172, 173, 175, 199, 203, 204, 216, 226, 228, 240-242, 253, 255, 257, 258, 262, 300, 314, 325, 326, 334; missing: 333. Numbers 270A-D and 280A are by Hutchins. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 280A follows 337. Subjects covered in this album...

Scope and Contents From the File: The album now contains photographs numbered in the range 168-346 (originally there were 165). Added numbers are: 200A, 263A, 270A-D, 280A, 296A, 335A-B; spoiled: 234; not used: 170, 172, 173, 175, 199, 203, 204, 216, 226, 228, 240-242, 253, 255, 257, 258, 262, 300, 314, 325, 326, 334; missing: 333. Numbers 270A-D and 280A are by Hutchins. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 280A follows 337. Subjects covered in this album...

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272 x 208 mm. View from the Pattirippwa (the octagonal building) of the Temple of the Tooth looking along the Esplanade towards Queen’s Hotel at the farther end. The Diamond Jubilee celebrations are in progress, with crowds gathered round the Governor’s pavilion and troops of the Lancashire Regiment beyond. The celebrations took place on June 29th.

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276 x 214 mm. View from the same location as Y303B/5, probably taken a short while before the start of the ceremony. On either side of the carpet leading to the Governor’s pavilion is a row of elephants who bowed as Governor Ridgeway passed by. Photograph probably by W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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273 x 213 mm. View from the Esplanade looking towards the Temple of the Tooth, with pavilions and decorations erected for the celebration of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee. See also Y303B/5-6, 79-83. Photograph probably by W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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270 x 212 mm. Showing crowds, European and Singhalese, gathered round the Governor’s stand on the Esplanade during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, with the Pattirippuwa of the Temple of the Tooth in the background. See Y303B/5. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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272 x 212 mm. Showing crowds in the street, with flags and other decorations flying from the houses in the background. Precise location unidentified, but the building in the foreground is possibly part of Queen’s hotel. Photographer unknown, probably Skeen & Co.

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270 x 212 mm. Similar view to Y303B/80, but taken from a slightly different angle. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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275 x 214 mm. Showing troops drawn up on parade, with artillery pieces in the foreground and spectators lining the field. The main Jubilee celebrations took place on 29th June 1897 (see Y303B/5) but may well have continued into the following month. This parade, or salute, is certainly not taking place on the main Esplanade and is probably in the Bogambra Ground. Photograph probably by W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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272 x 213 mm. View looking along Trincomalee Street from the Esplanade, with Queen’s Hotel in the foreground decorated with flags and banners. Queen’s Hotel was established in 1849. See also Y303B/5. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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270 x 215 mm. View showing a road in Kandy lined with decorations and with a large triumphal arch. A similar structure can be seen at Y3022G/18. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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273 x 213 mm. View from the vicinity of the Governor’s stand during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of 29th June 1897, looking eastwards along the Esplanade towards the Temple of the Tooth. A large crowd of spectators, mainly school children, stands in the foreground. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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270 x 212 mm. View looking along Colombo Street, with bunting, flags and other decorations lining the road way. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H Skeen & Co.

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The garden is a public garden. (Fisher).

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The garden is a Public Garden. (Fisher). [Close-up of fountain].

Scope and Contents 203 x 148 mm. View, probably from the clock tower, looking northwards onto Queen’s House, with shipping at anchor on the roadstead beyond. The house, a square two storey affair with verandahs running around the house on both floors and with a main entrance with Port cochere on Queen Street, was the Governor’s residence in Colombo. A colonnade walk leads to other wings (not visible) in the foreground. The house is set in four acres of gardens and was largely rebuilt from an earlier version by...

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With fountain in foreground and house beyond. [The building was constructed circa 1856 to replace the governors former residence at Mount Lavinia (which then became the Mount Lavinia Hotel). The house is surrounded by an eight acre garden and the main entrance is opposite the G.P.O in Queen Street].

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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 33. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.

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An album of albumen prints by John Edward Sache, Thomas A. Rust, Nicholas and Co., and W.L.H. Skeen and Co. It was compiled by R. Elsy apparently during a tour in the 1880s through India and Ceylon. It includes pictures of Bombay, Delhi, Agra, Cawnpore, Lucknow, Allahabad, Benares, Calcutta, Madras, Bangalore and Ceylon. The prints' pencil captions have been used as titles; titles composed by the cataloguer have been enclosed in square brackets.

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212x272mm. Head on view showing a locomotive negotiating the curve, with a sheer drop on the left, at Sensation Rock on the Colombo-Kandy railway.

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138 x 107 mm. General view of the line and station at Kadugannawa. The Dawson memorial can just be made out in the distance. See Y303A/30.

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273x213mm. View showing one of the many picturesque waterfalls in the Rambodda district, with thickly wooded hills on either side.

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276x211mm. View looking along the road which passes beneath a section of overhanging cliff on the route between Nuwera Eliya and Rambodda.

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209 x 271 mm. View from the summit looking down onto the winding road that follows the path of the hillside through the pass. The Rambodda Pass runs through the Piduru Range between Bampola and Nuwera Eliya. Tea estate buildings and quarters can be seen along the side of the road.