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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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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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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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275 x 215 mm. View looking along Skinner's Road, an unsurfaced tree lined thoroughfare at the E side of the central portion of Colombo and running N to S in an arc from the harbour to the lake.

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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243 x 176 mm. View in the Ceylonese quarter of Colombo, with thatched houses lining the roadway and a number of people posed in the foreground. The caption reads 'This is one of the streets of Colombo. The trees are very green and full of leaf all the year round. The houses are the native houses'.

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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274x212mm.

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Half-plate (landscape format). Called Dhobi land, washing place on the lake.

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Quarter- plate. [No print]. Painting only. Print missing.

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272x215mm.

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272x215mm.

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

Scope and Contents Oil on canvas painting, 102 x 76 cm, commissioned from the marine artist Sidney Fever. It depicts the tea clipper ‘The Tweed’ about to sail from Colombo Harbour on 8 April 1888, where she had called during her voyage from China to New York. Weatherstone meticulously researched the ship and harbour in contemporary plans, prints and photographs to ensure the painting’s authenticity, and his list of sources is filed with the collection. ‘The Tweed’ began life as the armed paddle steamer...

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147 x 96 mm. Amateur snapshot looking towards the Triumphal Arch, with the unidentified 'Edmund' heading away from the camera in a rickshaw. Photographer unknown, probably the compiler of the album.

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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 69. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.

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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'M.B. Uduman's Copyright No. 63. Printed in Saxony. Published by 'The Travellers Mart', 14 York and Ballie Street, Colombo'.

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A message from Ken to Mr and Mrs P F Oliver (Pete and Dorothy) in Hong Kong is written on the reverse. Published by 'Will's Studio, Dematagoda'

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258 x 207 mm. View from the seaward end of the breakwater looking towards the Customs House area, with construction work in progress in the foreground. H.M.S. ‘Bacchante’ and ‘Ruby’ are anchored in the harbour within the area enclosed by the breakwater. The two princes remained in Ceylon from 25th January to 6th February 1882. For an account of their visit, see John N. Dalton, ‘The cruise of Her Majesty’s Ship Bacchante’ 1879-1882 (2 vols, London, 1886), vol 2, p 311-344.

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52 x 78 mm.

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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'.