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, ...
Typhoon in Hong Kong, 5 October 1894. Cargo boats and launch 'Dakin' ashore, north end of Yau-ma-ti. Tank of Kowloon Waterworks in foreground. Photographer: Unknown
Hong Kong, house at the Peak, 7 Des Voeux Villas, 1893. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Architectural Photography European group with Chinese servants posed on the vernadah of 7 Des Voeux Villas. The three Europeans are identified as D. Wood, L. Gibbs, C.H. Gale. [Albumen print, 278x213mm]. Subjects = British colonial architecture; private houses
Public Works Department Staff, Hong Kong, April 1897. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Public Works Department staff. The sitters are identified as follows: G. Mollison, J. Ross, Li Sang, Dougherty, Carroll, T.M. Xavier, E.M. Hazeland, A.H. Hollingsworth, W. Chathan, Hon. T.A. Cooper (Director of Public Works), J.R. Crook, R.T. Drury,...