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107 x 104 mm. glossy print with two copies and 56 mm. negative.

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207 x 154 mm. Showing a European seated in a rickshaw in garden at back of Queen’s House Colombo. It has not been determined whether the pencilled caption refers to the person photographed or to a cricket club.

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99 x 132 mm

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280x215mm.

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95 x 141 mm.

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211 x 278 mm. Showing a Travellers’ palm growing beside a path, probably in Peradeniya Botanical gardens.

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120 x 95 mm.

Scope and Contents From the File: A collection of platinum prints, 280 x 225 mm, mounted in a volume bound in red leather with 'The Royal Visit to Ceylon April, 1901' and the Royal Arms on the front cover. They are by various photographers and record the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later H.M. King George V and H.M. Queen Mary) 12-15 April, 1901. The prints are mounted on cardboard pages and have printed captions, which have been recorded as found. They may include language which is...

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286 x 221 mm. View looking up towards stone walls, probably fortifications on the lower slopes of Sigirya, with a vertical rock face rising at the right. Photograph probably by Joseph Lawton.

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279 x 211 mm. Showing four men seated in a row on the ground in front of a bungalow, with piles of cinnamon branches beside them from which they are stripping the bark.

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279 x 212 mm. Showing a row of workers seated on a verandah splitting coconuts, with a pile of kernels in the wooden trough in front of them.

Scope and Contents Reproductions of colour illustrations (with some duplicates) from S.W. Baker, ‘Rifle and hound in Ceylon’ (1854), C. O’Brien, ‘A series of fifteen views in Ceylon’ (1864), and V. Legge, ‘A history of the birds of Ceylon’ (1881).1 Town and lake of Kandy, 1864 2 Colombo Harbour, 1864 3 Porte of Galle from the P&O Company station on Closenburg Island , 18644 View near Point de Galle, Ceylon, 1864 5 Group of palms at the entrance of the Royal Botanic Gardens,...

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197 x 144 mm. View from the front garden looking towards the bungalow, presumably the property of George William Rudd of the firm of Rudd Brokers. Photographer unknown.

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109 x 152 mm.

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217 x 275 mm. Half length, full face portrait of Singhalese girl of the Rodiya caste. Photograph probably by W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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56 x 92 mm. Half length studio portrait of an aged Rhodia woman.

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285 x 185 mm (hand-coloured).

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

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206 x 153 mm. View looking down onto the Kandy cart road, with the railway line entering a tunnel further up the steep jungle-covered hillside. Photographer unknown, possibly W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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205 x 156 mm. View from the steep hillside looking down onto a broad curve in the Kandy cart road. Photographer unknown, possibly W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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205 x 148 mm. View from the same position as Y303B/47, looking down onto the Kandy Road, but more to the left and including a roadside bungalow. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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206 x 155 mm. View looking along the Kandy car road towards the Perforated Rock, through which the road runs. The Bible Rock is the flat topped mountain on the distant skyline. Photographer unknown, probably W.L.H. Skeen & Co.

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Collection of photographs, including three duplicates, commissioned by McKenzies Limited to illustrate their highway construction work in Bombay, other regions of India and Ceylon.

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Quarter-plate. A little nearer sea than 163.

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285 x 255 mm.