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Monochrome postcards of the ruined cities of Ceylon, 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 of the ruined cities of Ceylon, published by Platé Ltd.

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Quarter-plate. Scenery on the way to Kandy. The train rounding a curve. Taken from the train.

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200 x 71 mm. A panoramic view looking across scrub and cultivated land towards the site of Old Kampala and the neighbouring hills. Namirembe Hill is at the extreme right of the print, with the Anglican Cathedral on the summit.

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100 x 78 mm. Showing a small sailing boat on the Tero Forest Canal.

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The caption printed on the reverse reads: 'Kadugannawa Road, showing rock tunnelled in 1831'.

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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate. East of Newara Eliya, and cattle.

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Quarter-plate. East of Newara Eliya, and cattle.

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Quarter-plate. East of Newara Eliya, and cattle.

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96 x 71 mm. A view from the driveway showing the front of the Provincial Commissioner's bungalow at Kampala.

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Half-plate. Part of a clump of giant bamboos in the Government Gardens at Peredeniya showing both sides of the river - on opposite shore are the experiments grounds(Fisher). [The first Botanic Gardens in Ceylon were established at Slave Island and later moved to Kalutara. They were transferred to their present location in 1813. The photograph shows the giant bamboos on the banks of the Mahawelia Ganga, introduced into the gardens in 1858].

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Quarter-plate. Outside a shop in road.

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A collection of loose prints measuring approximately 200 x 145 mm, with handwritten captions on the reverse. Photographs are by Alfred Lobo of Entebbe (only one print is stamped with Lobo's name but it is likely that the rest of the prints are also by him.

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...

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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Printed key to 26 persons in the group.

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147 x 105 mm. A view looking along the unsurfaced road, with a boy crouching beside a small pool in the foreground.

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104 x 145 mm. A view looking towards the falls from the pool beneath. The Sezibwa River crosses the Kampala-Jinja roads halfway between the two towns.

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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'This rock was converted into a palace and fortress by King Kasyapa in the 4th Century A.D.'.

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The printed caption on the reverse reads: 'This rock was converted into a palace and fortress by King Kasyapa in the 4th Century A.D.'.

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153 x 104 mm. Showing a Ugandan worker digging an irrigation ditch in a field of young sisal plants in Kampala. Introduced into German East Africa around 1893, the plant thrived in Kenya but little successful commercial exploitation was achieved in Uganda.

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'A sketch of the constitution of the Kandyan kingdom', the last independent state in Sri Lanka, which had its capital at Kandy, c. 1835, 186 pages; a memorandum on the law of inheritance, 30 pages; rules for administering justice, 25 pages; Sir John Doyley's notes on the Kandyan law of inheritance, 8 pages; Singhalese law of inheritance, etc., 47 pages; and notes on the law of marriage, etc., 30 pages.

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A view of the house and garden of the estate.