[Locomotive on Sensation Rock on the Colombo-Kandy Railway, Ceylon.] Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the track towards the approaching locomotive, with vertical rock-face at the right and a sheer drop on the left. Subjects = locomotives; railway rolling stock; railways; transport Location = Ceylon; Sensation Rock; Sri Lanka
[Festival car, Madras district.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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View of a large wooden festival car. Oval image. Probably the print listed in the Nicholas & Co. catalogue as '276. Festival car.' Subjects = festivals; temple cars
[E.B. Havell teaching, probably in Calcutta.] Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Half-length portrait of Ernest Havell in the classroom, wearing academic gown and mortar board, gesturing with right arm. Subjects =
[Picotta (device for raising water), South India.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Landscape Photography Two men operating a picottah, 'that ancient machine for raising water, which consists of a long lever or yard, pivotted on an upright post, weighted on the short arm and bearing a line and bucket on the long arm...' (Hobson-Jobson). Probably the print listed in the...
[Reckla or small bullock cart, South India.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Man standing on a cart drawn by a small bullock. The reckla is small two-wheeled carriage consisting of little more than a small platform and seat mounted over the cross-axle. Probably the print listed in the Nicholas & Co. catalogue as '75. Reckla (Native...
[Studio portrait of a South Indian family, Madras district.] Photographer: Nicholas and Company
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Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full length standing portrait of a man and a woman with a child at their feet. The woman holds a saucepan and the man a sitar-like instrument. Subjects =