The great rain storm, Hong Kong, May 1889. Street scene after the storm. 27.44 inches of rain fell in 24 hours. Of this 11.90 ins fell in 4 hours. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography Street scene showing roadway covered with debris, with a line of sandbags in the foreground. [Albumen print, 271x202mm]. Subjects = floods; storms
Peradeniya Gardens, Kandy 1898 [caption on print reads: 'Dendrocalamus Giganteus (Giant Bamboo) 114']. Photographer: Colombo Apothecaries Company
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Genre: Landscape Photography View of one of the massive stands of bamoos beside the Mahaweli Ganga in the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens. This is a photograph dating from the 1880s by Charles T. Scowen, whose stock was taken over by the Colombo Apothecaries Company in the 1890s. [Albumen print, ...