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Photo 1359
- Record Id:
- 032-003356120
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003356120
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100038312363.0x000001
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1359
- Title:
- Thomas Yates Wright Collection: Photographs of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
- Scope & Content:
-
Collection of 70 loose, captioned prints relating to the life in Ceylon of Colonel Thomas Yates Wright (b. 1869), a tea plantation manager on the island from 1889. The material includes photographs of social life, sporting events and portraits. The collection includes portraits of the following figures: Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka (1868-1944), Lord Baden Powell (visiting Colombo), Major Harold North, Ramasamy Mahomed Kangany, Willie Pickering, Hervey Hopwood, Bill Lancaster, Percy Hartin, John Manners, Harold Stevenson, Sir Kudah and Lady Ratwatte, Charlie Ferguson, H. J. Temple, Duke of Gloucester (visiting Ceylon), Sir William Manning, Thomas North Christie, Captain John Keith Jolly, Betty and Tom Walker, Sir William Gibbon, Major Scoble Nicholson. The collection also includes a few Scottish scenes.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003356120
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003356120
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 70 photographic prints
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Techniques:
- Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print - Start Date:
- 1890
- End Date:
- 1949
- Date Range:
- 1890-1940s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Appointment Required to view these records. Please consult Asian and African Studies Print Room staff.
- Former Internal References:
- Mss Eur F353
- Source of Acquisition:
- Transferred from Mss Eur F353
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Wright, Thomas Yates, Colonel
- Places:
- Ceylon, Sri Lanka, Asia, South Asia
- Related Material:
-
For a draft of Wright's memoir, Ceylon in my time, see Mss Eur F353.