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51. Photo 897/1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 897/1(6)
Title:
Tamil woman. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Portrait of a woman holding an umbrella. Subjects = dress; ethnic groups; Tamils; umbrellas Location = Ceylon; Sri Lanka
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

52. Photo 1051/2(33)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1051/2(33)
Title:
[View of Colombo Harbour.] Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking south-west across the enclosed harbour trowards the foot of the breakwater, with a coconut plantation in the foreground. [Albumen print, 271x211mm]. Subjects = harbours; shipping; transport; water transport Location = Ceylon; Colombo; Sri Lanka; We...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

53. Photo 1130

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1130
Title:
Group of Kandyan Chiefs. Photographer: William Louis Henry Skeen and Co.
Scope & Content:
Platinum print in window aperture, inscribed on mount Kandyan Chiefs.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1903-1907
Extent:
1 item

54. Photo 1130(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1130(1)
Title:
Kandyan Chiefs. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Kandyan chiefs in formal dress, with two unidentified Europeans in the centre. [Platinum print, signed 'Skeen & Co 1159' in the negative, 277x225mm]. Subjects = dress; platinum prints; Sri Lankan office holders Location = Central Province; ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1903-1907
Extent:
1 item

55. Photo 1178

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1178
Title:
Views of construction work on the Haputale, Kurunegela, Galle and Bandarawela Railways, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Photographer(s): Unknown (probably William Louis Henry Skeen and Co)
Scope & Content:
Collection of 30 loose albumen prints, captioned and dated in a contemporary hand on the reverse, documenting railway construction in Ceylon in the early to mid-1890s. The views show work in progress on the Matara and Galle lines (following the coast along the south-west corner of the island), t...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1893-1895
Extent:
30 items

56. Photo 1185

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1185
Title:
Two photographs of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Photographer: William Louis Henry Skeen and Company.
Scope & Content:
Two uncaptioned albumen prints, mounted on either side of a sheet of paper, originally presumably part of an album. The photographer's blind stamp, reading Photographers W. L. H. Skeen & Co Colombo Ceylon, is impressed at the bottom left of each print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880s
Extent:
2 items

57. Photo 1185(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1185(1)
Title:
Sunset view of Colombo Harbour. Photographer: William Louis Henry Skeen and Company.
Scope & Content:
Blind stamped lower left, Photographers W. L. H. Skeen & Co Colombo View looking westwards across Colombo Harbour at dusk, with the breakwater and shipping on the horizon and a dramatic cloudscape overhead.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

58. Photo 1185(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1185(2)
Title:
Village scene, Ceylon. Photographer: William Louis Henry Skeen and Company.
Scope & Content:
Blind stamped lower left, Photographers W. L. H. Skeen & Co Colombo Ceylon View looking along the road leading through a village, with thatched houses on either side and jungle in the background. With a Singhalese man posed beside the road in the middleground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

59. Photo 1224/1(100)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/1(100)
Title:
Ceylon. Colombo [sic, for Galle] Harbour [visited November 27th-30th and December 10th-13th 1877]. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
Scope & Content:
View across the harbour at Galle, with shipping at anchor in the bay. Photograph uncredited, but probably by Skeen and Co.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item

60. Photo 1224/1(101)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1224/1(101)
Title:
Ceylon. Colombo Harbour. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
Scope & Content:
View looking seawards, with shipping at moorings beneath a cloudscape (possibly montaged). Photograph uncredited, but probably by Skeen and Co.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1870s
Extent:
1 item