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21. Photo 249(21)

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Photo 249(21)
Title:
Suburb of Colombo (Pettah). Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street lined with single-storied verandahed houses in the Pettah district of Colombo.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

22. Photo 249(22)

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Photo 249(22)
Title:
Mosque [or church?] near Colombo. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking along a path towards what clearly appears to be a Christian church rather than a mosque.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

23. Photo 249(23)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 249(23)
Title:
Buddhist priests (boys), Colombo. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of five young Buddhist monks, posed in front of a single storied vernadahed building.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

24. Photo 249(24)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 249(24)
Title:
Outskirts of Colombo. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along a street in Colombo, lined with thatched houses on the right and with the walls of a more substantial dwelling on the left.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

25. Photo 249(25)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 249(25)
Title:
Outskirts of Colombo. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the same residential street in Colombo as print 24, but taken from further back along the roadway.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

26. Photo 249(26)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 249(26)
Title:
English Church (1852), Colombo. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography View looking towards the plain neoclassical facade of St Peter's Church, with its triple arched entrance, squeezed between the surrounding buildings. Built as the Dutch Governor's residence in 1680, it was converted into a church in 1821. The date of 1852 given ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1852
Extent:
1 item

27. Photo 249(27)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 249(27)
Title:
The Kirk, Colombo. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the Scots Kirk (St Andrew's) in Colombo.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

28. Photo 249(28)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 249(28)
Title:
Enterior [sic] of Costume [Custom] house, Colombo. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography General view of the building from the yard in front, with figures posed beside carts in the foreground.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

29. Photo 249(29)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 249(29)
Title:
Dwelling of a Coffee planter, Ceylon. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of three European men and a woman, posed with domestic servants in the driveway in front of a substantial thatched bungalow.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item

30. Photo 249(30)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 249(30)
Title:
Drying grounds for coffee, Ceylon. Photographer: Fiebig, Frederick
Scope & Content:
Genre: Industrial Photography View looking across the coffee drying ground, with a lake or the sea beyond.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1852
Extent:
1 item