Name: Skeen and Company / Digitised Content Platform: BL legacy Universal Viewer (unavailable) / Material Type: Photographs - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 234(11)
Title:: Sunset, Colombo. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking out to sea, with a fishing boat silhouetted on the horizon. Subjects = Location = Ceylon; Colombo; Sri Lanka; Western Province
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 234(12)
Title:: Colombo in the breaking of the N.W. Monsoon. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Showing heavy seas striking the breakwater in Colombo harbour. Subjects = breakwaters; monsoons; ports Location = Ceylon; Colombo; Sri Lanka; Western Province
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 234(13)
Title:: Mount Ephraim or Lavinia Hotel, built for one of the governors' residence [near Colombo]. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the beach towards the Mount Lavinia Hotel, which stands on a small headland a few miles outside Colombo. Subjects = British colonial architecture; hotels Location = Ceylon; Colombo; Sri Lanka; Western Province
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 234(18)
Title:: Newralia, the hills in Ceylon. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography General view over the valley at Nuwera Eliya. Subjects = hill stations Location = Ceylon; Nuwara Eliya; Sri Lanka
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 234(19)
Title:: View of the wonderful railway from Colombo to Kandy, Ceylon. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Locomotive on the line, with a steep drop on the right. Subjects = locomotives; railway rolling stock; railways; transport Location = Ceylon; Sri Lanka
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Photo 234(21)
Title:: Railway going up from the plains of Colombo to Kandy, Ceylon. Photographer: Skeen and Company, William Henry Louis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography Subjects = locomotives; railway rolling stock; railways; transport Location = Ceylon; Sri Lanka
Collection Area:: Visual Arts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1870s
Extent:: 1 item

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