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Collection Area Visual Arts Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1116 Name Colombo Apothecaries Company

1. Photo 1116/2(59)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1116/2(59)
Title:
Breakwater Works, Colombo, 1898 [c. 1875-80]. Photographer: Colombo Apothecaries Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the works at the base of the breakwater, with piles of masonry stacked beside the railway line being shifted with gantry cranes. The breakwater was completed in 1885 and this view appears to date from an early stage in its construction. With cannons on the f...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1875-1880
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1116/2(60)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1116/2(60)
Title:
Peradeniya Gardens, Kandy 1898 [caption on print reads: 'Dendrocalamus Giganteus (Giant Bamboo) 114']. Photographer: Colombo Apothecaries Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of one of the massive stands of bamoos beside the Mahaweli Ganga in the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens. This is a photograph dating from the 1880s by Charles T. Scowen, whose stock was taken over by the Colombo Apothecaries Company in the 1890s. [Albumen print, ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1116/2(61)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1116/2(61)
Title:
Kandy 1898 [1880s]. Photographer: Colombo Apothecaries Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along one of the walks beside the lake at Kandy. The photograph is signed 'Scowen' (the original photographer) in the negative, but also has the blind stamp of the Colombo Apothecaries Company, who took over his stock. [Albumen print, 277x215mm]. Sub...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1116/2(62)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1116/2(62)
Title:
Peradeniya Gardens, Kandy, 1898. Photographer: Colombo Apothecaries Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across a lake in the Botanical Gardens towards a stand of bamboos. Damaged print, with portion of emulsion missing. [Albumen print, 276x217mm]. Subjects = bamboos; botanical gardens; trees & plants Location = Ceylon; Peradeniya; Sri Lanka
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

5. Photo 1116/2(63)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1116/2(63)
Title:
Satinwood Bridge, Peradeniya, 1898. Photographer: Colombo Apothecaries Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the Satinwood Bridge across the Mahaweli Ganga, showing the structure before the improvements of 1906 were undertaken. [Albumen print, 276x220mm]. Subjects = bridges; river scenes Location = Ceylon; Mahaweli Ganja (river); Peradeniya; Sri Lanka
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1890s
Extent:
1 item

6. Photo 1116/2(64)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1116/2(64)
Title:
Colombo Lake No. 32. Photographer: Colombo Apothecaries Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the lake towards the Galle Face Church. [Albumen print, 271x213mm]. Subjects = lakes Location = Ceylon; Colombo; Sri Lanka; Western Province
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

7. Photo 1116/2(65)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1116/2(65)
Title:
Tea estate factory, Ceylon, 1898. Photographer: Colombo Apothecaries Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography General view of factory buildings, with land in foreground planted out with tea bushes. [Albumen print, 276x216mm]. Subjects = tea; tea factories; tea plantations Location = Ceylon
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

8. Photo 1116/2(66)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1116/2(66)
Title:
Kandy, 1898. Photographer: Colombo Apothecaries Company
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking down onto the lake and oriental library. [Albumen print, 275x217mm]. Subjects = lakes Location = Central Province; Ceylon; Kandy; Sri Lanka
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1890s
Extent:
1 item

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