Indian huts on a sugar plantation, Plain William near Port Louis. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards a ground of labourers' huts on a sugar plantation in the Plaines Wilhelms district of Mauritius, with a small group of labourers posed in the foreground and a mountain rising against the skyline in the background.
Genre: Landscape Photography Distant view of Adam's Peak from the Maskeliya Valley, with the river and the Laxapana ferry in foreground. On the far bank of the river is land newly cleared and planted out with coffee, with a bungalow in the distance. See also Photo 475 (71), for a smaller format...
Adam's Peak from Laxapana Ferry, Maskeliya Valley, [Ceylon]. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography Distant view of Adam's Peak, with the river and ferry in foreground. On the far bank of the river is land newly cleared for a coffee plantation, with a bungalow in the distance. See also Photo 430/5 (6), for a larger format version of this image, clearly taken on th...
Cotton Green, 'Bombay.' Photographer: Frith's Series
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Inscription: 'Frith's Series' blindstamp at bottom left. Genre: Urban Topographical Photography General view looking across the Cotton Green, piled high with sacks of cotton, with the tower of Saint Thomas's Cathedral visible on the skyline in the distance.
Genre: Landscape Photography A pottery at Yenangyaung, with thatched buildings and a pile of chatties or round earthenware pots lying in the foreground. Letterpress continues: 'Petroleum is exported from Ye-nan-gyoung (whence its name river of fetid water) in pots such as represented above'. A ...