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Showing black crows flying around.

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Landscape format. Looking back at the Ortona.

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Approaching the landing stage [taken from small boat].

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of glass lantern slides, 82 x 82 mm, mostly of Samoa, taken by John Snowden Smithson. Smithson visited Samoa on holiday and presumably the remaining slides (5 of them unidentified, 13 of Yosemite National Park and 10 of Ceylon), together with a map, date from the same period. None of the slides are captioned, but the first 91 slides have numbers on their left hand corners, running from 20/10 to 30/9, with a few gaps, and presumably represent the sequence in which the...

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214 x 158 mm. View looking along the platform, with several figures posed for the photographer on the platform at the right. This view illustrates well the use of decorative wrought iron in the construction of the station, (Perera, ‘The Ceylon railway’, p. 63).

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Half-plate (landscape format). Two coolies on steps at crown [corner] of large reservoir tank at Malaga, Kande. See colouring of trees in painting 38. Sloping side of reservoir is green grass; steps are of white cement. Where man is working, bricks are red with white mortar. (Fisher)

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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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 6. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.

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248 x 200 mm. View looking down onto the starting point of the breakwater, with a large crowd gathered in front of the open-sided marquee beneath which the foundation stone is suspended. The Prince of Wales has not been positively identified: he may be hidden behind the foundation stone or he may possibly be one of the figures climbing the steps up to the marquee.

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259 x 210 mm View from near the head looking towards the completed lighthouse and landing pier, with the harbour entrance beyond. A photograph taken from a similar viewpoint to Y303C/8.

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242 x 192 mm. View looking along the street (? Chatham Street), with cars and rickshaws to the foreground.

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Trading vessels from the Maldive Islands. The vessels are part of a trading fleet from the Maldive Islands. An annual tribute is brought from these Islands and ceremoniously presented to the Governor of Ceylon at Colombo. (Fisher).

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Trading vessels from the Maldive Islands. The vessels are part of a trading fleet from the Maldive Islands. An annual tribute is brought from these Islands and ceremoniously presented to the Governor of Ceylon at Colombo. (Fisher).

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Trading vessels from the Maldive Islands. The vessels are part of a trading fleet from the Maldive Islands. An annual tribute is brought from these Islands and ceremoniously presented to the Governor of Ceylon at Colombo. (Fisher).

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Trading vessels from the Maldive Islands. The vessels are part of a trading fleet from the Maldive Islands. An annual tribute is brought from these Islands and ceremoniously presented to the Governor of Ceylon at Colombo. (Fisher).

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55 x 79 mm.

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

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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 94. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.

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197 x 148 mm. General view of the Mount Lavinia Hotel, some seven miles from Colombo. The main part of the hotel stands on a small headland overlooking the ocean with a single storied verandahed building, presumably providing additional accommodation. The main house was a two storey stone building with a balcony originally built for the Governor of Ceylon, Sir Edward Barnes.

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Monochrome postcards, mainly of Colombo scenes, published by W.H.L. Skeen and Co.

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276 x 216 mm. Group portrait of Europeans posed in a garden, with a lake in the background. In front of the group stands a large tortoise. No identifications, although the figure second front left, front row, is possibly J.A. Alexander. Mutwall, with its lake, is in the northern part of Colombo.

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275x213mm. View looking along an unsurfaced road with mud and thatch houses on either side and three Cinghalese posed in the roadway.

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Monochrome postcards showing views in Colombo, Kandy and the ruined cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, published by Platé Ltd.

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Monochrome postcards showing views in Colombo, Kandy and the ruined cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, published by Platé Ltd.

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Monochrome postcards showing views in Colombo, Kandy and the ruined cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa, published by Platé Ltd.