Sri Lanka (nation)
Found in 1243 Collections and/or Records:
Surf boats, 1886
274x212mm.
Tabebuia rosea, beautiful flowering tree, 1890 - 1899
92 x 128 mm.
Talagala Rubber Est; Ceylon, 1910 - 1911
Inspection of a rubber tree on the estate.
Talipot palm, 1870 - 1879
195 x 247 mm. Captioned on negative ‘Corypha umbraculifera’. Photograph by Scowen & Co.
Talipot Palm Avenue in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], 1920 - 1929
The postcard is addressed to Mrs Roma Detwold (or Detmold). It contains a brief note and is signed 'GW' or 'GD'.
Talipot Palm Avenue, Peradeniya, 1907
Half-plate. (Mr Willis, the Director in foreground). [John Christopher Willis (1868-1958), Senior Assistant in Botany, Glasgow University 1894-1896; Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya 1896-1911; Director of the Botanic Gardens, Rio de Janeiro 1912-1915; author of various botanical publications].
Talipot palm in flower, Ceylon, 1870 - 1900
212 x 266 mm. View from a hillside looking out over a valley, with a flowering talipot palm in the foreground. Exact location unknown. Photographer unknown, either Scowen & Co. or W.L.H. Skeen & Co.
Talipot palm shelter, 1984
508 x 381 mm. watercolour. It illustrates a rough talipot palm hut, which often was the only shelter enjoyed by pioneer tea and coffee planters before a more comfortable hut or log cabin could be built.
Tamil, 1886
94x140mm.
Tamil, 1870 - 1879
92 x 137 mm. Full length studio portrait of a woman.
Tamil, 1870 - 1879
91 x 144 mm. Full length studio portrait of a bearded Cinghalese wearing a ‘skirt’ of patterned cloth and a circular hat of woven straw. Photograph by Scowen & Co.
Tamil, 1870 - 1879
90 x 138 mm. Half length seated studio portrait of a Tamil woman. Photograph by Scowen & Co.
Tamil children, 1886
131x95mm.
Tamil children, 1870 - 1879
130 x 96 mm. Group portrait. Photograph by Scowen & Co.
Tamil funeral procession, Kandy, 1907
Quarter- plate.
[Tamil girl, Sri Lanka], 1880 - 1889
214 x 267 mm. Three quarter length portrait of a Tamil girl running her fingers through her hair. Photograph by W.H.L Skeen and Co.
Tamil woman grinding rice in a stone mortar outside a house near Kandy, 1907
Quarter-plate. Negative useless. [No print].
Tamil woman picking Arabian coffee, 1880 - 1920
136 x 202 mm.
Tamils, 1886
96x142mm.
Tapping para rubber trees 60 ft high, 1890 - 1920
110 x 152 mm.
Tea and rubber estate factory, 1900
285 x 235 mm.
Tea and rubber estate, two year old rubber clearing, 1880 - 1910
285 x 235 mm.
Tea and rubber estate, two year old rubber clearing, factory, 1900
285 x 235 mm.
Tea at the wharf, ready for shipment, 1880 - 1920
278 x 211 mm. Showing crates of tea being loaded onto a crane on the wharf at Colombo, with lighters and other shipping at anchor in the harbour beyond.
Tea Bushes, 1880 - 1920
210 x 179 mm. Showing a spray from a tea plant, with ripe blossoms, buds and leaves.