Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Indian and European figures walking or riding in carriages along the harbour. Steamships or troopships in the distance.
Sunset view of Colombo Harbour. Photographer: William Louis Henry Skeen and Company.
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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.
Looking across the bay to Kowloon and mainland from Bowen Road, above Hong Kong. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood
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Buildings visible in this view include the Union Church (bottom left), the Cable House (left, along the harbour) and the St. John's Protestant Church (right of the tree, along the harbour).
From Imperial Bank [looking] north along Whangpoo, over English and American Quarters, Shanghai. Photographer: James Ricalton for Underwood and Underwood