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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1185

1. Photo 1185

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1185
Title:
Two photographs of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Photographer: William Louis Henry Skeen and Company.
Scope & Content:
Two uncaptioned albumen prints, mounted on either side of a sheet of paper, originally presumably part of an album. The photographer's blind stamp, reading Photographers W. L. H. Skeen & Co Colombo Ceylon, is impressed at the bottom left of each print.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1880s
Extent:
2 items

2. Photo 1185(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1185(1)
Title:
Sunset view of Colombo Harbour. Photographer: William Louis Henry Skeen and Company.
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1185(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1185(2)
Title:
Village scene, Ceylon. Photographer: William Louis Henry Skeen and Company.
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880s
Extent:
1 item