Kandyan Chiefs. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
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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; ...
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.
Village scene, Ceylon. Photographer: William Louis Henry Skeen and Company.
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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.