Genre: Landscape Photography River scene with a girder bridge. Subjects = bridges Location = Ceylon; Galle; Sri Lanka Photograph of a river scene with a girder bridge near Galle in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), taken by Bourne and Shepherd in the 1860s. Galle, on the island's south-western coast is ...
Colombo, from Galle Face. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Landscape Photography View across a lake with figures, carts and animals in the foreground. This print is numbered 2075 but the same view is listed as No 2121 in a later Bourne & Shepherd catalogue. [Albumen print]. Subjects = Location = Ceylon; Colombo; Sri Lanka; Western Prov...
Cleaning & sorting coffee, Colombo. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
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Genre: Historical Events Group of female estate workers with baskets of coffee in courtyard in front of factory buildings. [Albumen print]. Subjects = coffee; coffee industry; women Location = Ceylon; Colombo; Sri Lanka; Western Province Photograph taken by Bourne and Shepherd in c.1870 o...
Rotas Fort, Southern gate, near Jhelum. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the gate of the fort at Rohtas. A note below the print reads: 'The old room above the gate is 63 feet long & was my dwelling house, office and hospital in 1856 for the hot weather. The Fort is several miles round & the wall often 30 ...