Sri Lanka (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1243 Collections and/or Records:
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W.A. Davis Retirement Photograph 1935
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303M
Scope and Contents
Framed photograph measuring 425 x 180 mm (print) and 590 x 260 mm (frame).It shows a group of 76 individuals (presumably Davis and his staff) outside a building. On the back is a label 'Presented to W.A. Davis Esq: Supdt. of Appln Surveys, on the eve of his retirement by the Staff of the Application and Field Sheet Departments. Surveyor General's Office. Colombo, 8th. May 1935'. William Arthur Davis, P.A.S.I., born in 1889, joined the Survey Department in Ceylon in 1913. He was...
Dates:
1935
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Warming up a break of tea before packing, 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/18
Scope and Contents
278 x 210 mm. Showing the final warming of the tea before packing, with leaf spread out on metal trays.
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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Washing clothes, Ceylon, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303G/6
Scope and Contents
260 x 204 mm. View showing Singhalese men washing clothes at the edge of a river or lake, with laundry drying on the ground beyond and a plantation of palms in the background.
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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Water buffalo from canoe, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/152
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate.
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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Weatherstone Collection
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 365
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of reproductions and originals of nineteenth-century prints, postcards, early and modern photographs, and watercolours which feature in two books on the tea industry written by John Weatherstone. Weatherstone’s works are distinguished for the wealth of their illustrations, which vividly bring to life the planter’s working and living conditions.
Dates:
1830 - 2008
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Weighing tea, 1886
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/56
Scope and Contents
121x212mm.
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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Weighing tea, 1886
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303P/57
Scope and Contents
209x279mm.
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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Weighing up of day’s gathering, 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/10
Scope and Contents
279 x 211 mm. Showing estate workers bringing in baskets of tea to a shed where they are weighed on scales, and the figures recorded by a figure standing 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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Wild buffalo in the forest, 1924
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Ceylon/77
Scope and Contents
The caption printed on the reverse reads: 'Wild buffaloes are found in all the low country forest. When caught young they can be domesticated'.
Dates:
1924
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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Wild elephants in kraal (Ceylon), 1880 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022L/132
Scope and Contents
197x138mm. Showing a group of wild elephants inside the kraal, with a tethered animal lying in the left foreground.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
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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Withering house with leaf laid out, 1880 - 1920
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/11
Scope and Contents
278 x 210 mm. Showing leaf laid out on the withering ‘tats’ (shelves formed from hessian spread over a wooden framework). The purpose of the withering process is to allow a certain amount of moisture to escape from the leaf and to become sufficiently flaccid and pliable for rolling.
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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[Woman in street], 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/11/39
Scope and Contents
52 x 78 mm.
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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Y303A/10 No.2 Tunnel, Kandy side, 1867
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303A/10
Scope and Contents
170 x 100 mm. View looking along the line towards the entrance to No. 2 Tunnel (40 yards), with a locomotive and a freight wagon crowded with labourers in the foreground, ‘Messrs.Slinn's views of the Tunnels on this the lower section of the incline taken from above and below are very faithful and very effective. No. 1 showing the face of the scarped rock above and the handsome masonry lining of the entrance with the engine just curving in, forms a very pretty picture. No. 2 in its...
Dates:
1867
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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Yapahu, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/55
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. One of a pair of stone lions at the Matigawa, or Royal Palace ruins, Yapahu.
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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Yapahu Rock from end of Gansabanda Road, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/56
Scope and Contents
Quarter-plate. Print spoiled. Painting only. Negative of this is useless, hence painting only available. (Fisher)
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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Yapahu Tank and Rock from the north, 1907
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Fisher 1/54
Scope and Contents
From the File:
The album now contains prints numbered in the range 1-167 (originally there were 147). Added numbers are: 60A, 60B, 90A and 99A; spoiled: 37-39, 56, 57, 61, 63, 80, 119, 123, 160, 165; not used 41, 44, 49, 52, 60, 75, 84, 95, 140, 141, 142, 151; missing: 43, 48, 99, 153. The photographs are not arranged totally in numerical order within the album so that 99A, 166-167 follow 69 and 136 follows 74. Subjects covered in this album are: Port Said;Cape Gardafui;Ceylon...
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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York Street junction, Colombo, 1900
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/PC Ceylon/2
Scope and Contents
The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 13. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.
Dates:
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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Zingiber officinalis, ginger, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y303E/133
Scope and Contents
108 x 148 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).