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Mss Eur F252/52
- Record Id:
- 040-002291271
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002291215
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001001.0x0000d4
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F252/52
- Title:
- Ceylon and India Revisited, 1951-52
- Scope & Content:
-
Diary includes:
- Folio 1 verso: photograph of a view over the lake at Kandy from the Kandayain Arts Association
- Folio 2 recto: photograph showing a view of the monastery at Anuradhapura
- Folio 2 verso: photograph of a view of an area showing pillars and large trees situated some distance from the monastery at Anuradhapura
- Folio 4 verso: photograph of the beach north from the hotel (Mount Lavinia)
- Folio 4 verso: photograph of palm trees at Bentota R.H.
- Folio 4 verso: photograph of the ebony depot at Buosa
- Folio 5 verso: photograph of timber rafts and local craft at Ambalangoda
- Folio 6 verso: photograph showing a working elephant near a vehicle carrying logs at Kakaniyamulla
- Folio 7 verso: photograph showing a working elephant and logs at Kakaniyamulla, near Kurunegala
- Folio 8 verso: photograph of Indikade Forest School
- Folio 9 verso: two photographs at Kakaniyamulla timber depot
- Folio 10 verso: photograph showing the trunk of an 1895 mahogany tree at Sundapola
- Folio 11 verso: photograph of coir mattress making at Kandehena
- Folio 11 verso: photograph of paddy fields and coconut at Kandehena
- Folio 12 verso: photograph at Dawategala plantation, showing jak 1925; mahogany 1930
- Folio 12 verso: photograph of fuel (logs) from Brown’s plantation, 1895, showing jak, mahogany, satin and teak
- Folio 12 verso: photograph of the lake at Peradeniya
- Folio 13 verso: photograph of a scene at Kandy, Ceylon, showing elephants
- Folio 14 verso: photograph of a view over Kandy Lake from Lady Gordon’s Forest
- Folio 14 verso: photograph of Royal Palm Avenue, Peradeniya
- Folio 15 verso: photograph of Agathis robusta trees in Peradeniya Gardens
- Folio 15 verso: photograph of talipot trees in Peradeniya Gardens
- Folio 16 verso: photograph of the “V.C’s” House University, Peradeniya and the Welliganga
- Folio 16 verso: photograph of Pusselawa T.G., Kandy District, from the R.H.
- Folio 17 verso: photograph of 1939 eucalyptus behind new work at Errebedde Patana Plantation
- Folio 17 verso: photograph of 1949 planting beyond grass-scrub at Errebedde Patana Plantation
- Folio 18 verso: photograph of pandanus trees at Peradeniya
- Folio 18 verso: photograph of Dendrocalamus (?) giganteus species of tree
- Folio 19 verso: photograph of monkeys on the car at Anuradhapura
- Folio 19 verso: photograph in the Kings Pleasure Garden at Anuradhapura, showing moonstones and steps
- Folio 20 verso: photograph of a double coconut palm tree at Peradeniya
- Folio 21 verso: photograph of a Couropita tree at Peradeniya Garden
- Folio 21 verso: photograph of an unnamed plant at Peradeniya Garden
- Folio 22 verso: photograph of the bathing pool at Anuradhapura
- Folio 22 verso: photograph showing the renovated Tabbowa tank with water lilies, storks and drowned forest
- Folio 23 verso: photograph of 1932 teak taungya, near Puttlam (Sellankandal)
- Folio 24 verso: photograph of balsa seedlings (Peradeniya)
- Folio 26 verso: photograph showing a group of people standing on the steps and facing the camera at Chorgallia F.R.H.
- Folio 27 verso: photograph of the foothill motor road, Temple Haldu, Seljam, Haldwani Dn.
- Folio 28 verso: photograph showing simal and khair broadcast on ploughed land (Lalkua T.&B.)
- Folio 28 verso: photograph of the Nandhaur Valley Tramway
- Folio 29 verso: photograph of the Nandhaur Valley at Aonlakhera
- Folio 30 verso: photograph of the Dhela plantation (Tarai & Bhabar Dn.)
- Folio 31 verso: photograph of Ficus bengalensis species of tree (Bargat) in sal forest at Jaspur, Ramnagar
- Folio 32 verso: photograph of Chilla F.R.H., Lansdowne Division
- Folio 33 verso: photograph of the Saharanpur taungyas at Lalwala Block (1941 sissu, simal kydia, Ailanthus and bamboo)
- Folio 33 verso: photograph showing an area heavily grazed by goats
- Folio 34 verso: photograph showing Araucaria cunninghami species of tree (Dehra Dun F.R.I. Experimental Garden)
- Folio 34 verso: photograph showing Casuarina equisetifolia species of tree (Aldrich Blake’s inoculated plot)
- Folio 35 verso: photograph of camels carrying bhabar grass (Jaspur, Ramnagar Dn.)
- Folio 36 verso: photograph of camels transporting wood fuel consisting of sticks and logs (Khanewal plantation)
- Folio 37 verso: photograph of a camel working a Persian wheel in a field (Pipli, east Punjab)
- Folio 37 verso: photograph of training work on the Markunda (Markanda) River, near Shahabad, Karnal Dt., showing Ipomoea cuttings of 3 seasons
- Folio 38 verso: photograph of an attempt to diagnose the cause of dying Back (die-Back), showing the roots and trunk of a Sissoo tree overhanging a large hole dug in the ground (Khanewall)
- Folio 39 verso: photograph of the Changa Manga Tramway showing passengers being transported on an open carriage
- Folio 40 verso: photograph of 1950 stump-planted simal (U Bari Doab Canal, near Lahore)
- Folio 40 verso: photograph of the D.F.O.’s rest house
- Folio 40 verso: photograph of a group of people facing the camera at the entrance of the D.F.O.’s rest house
- Folio 41 verso: photograph of first thinning in progress in six year old Sissoo (east Khanewal)
- Folio 42 verso: photograph at east Khanewal showing three year old mulberry coppice with Sissoo standards
- Folio 42 verso: photograph of a village deputation assembled outside of Pirawala F.R.H., Khanewal Dn.
- Folio 42 verso: photograph of a Sahiwal bull from Jehangirabad cattle farm of ‘K.B. Dost Mhd.’
- Folio 43 verso: photograph showing camels laden with wood fuel on the edge of Khanewal Plant
- Folio 43 verso: photograph of Bhakkar plantation area
- Folio 44 verso: photograph of Bhakkar plantation (Salvadora and Calopogon)
- Folio 44 verso: photograph of the first stage in Thal (dunes mobile and shrub fixed)
- Folio 45 verso: photograph of “our party” at Kallar Kahar rest house showing “Manzur Ahd., Vahid, Y.S. Amhed, C Tazdik Ahd., and Mustaq Ahd.”
- Folio 46 verso: photograph of a view at Kallar Kahar
- Folio 46 verso: photograph of a ‘fruit blossom’ at Kallar Kahar, showing a tree in blossom
- Folio 47 verso: photograph of “Sher Shah Suri” ca.1300 (Rohtas) showing a fortified building
- Folio 48 verso: photograph of a view from the trunk road east of Jhelum
- Folio 49 verso: photograph of Dab transit depot, Jhelum, showing ‘drift deodar logs’
- Folio 49 verso: photograph of a view up Jhelum from Janwal R.H. to Rankot Fort
- Folio 50 verso: photograph of the Siwalik rocks along the Poonch River, near Mirpur, with lopped Butea and Acacia modesta trees in the foreground
- Folio 51 verso: photograph showing a view down the Poonch Valley at M.II from Kotli, with chir on the North Aspects and sanatta trees elsewhere
- Folio 51 verso: photograph of Blue Pine timber, near Trarkhel
- Folio 52 verso: photograph of Harry Champion with two others in the Kail forests, near Trarkhel (photograph: Vahid)
- Folio 53 verso: photograph of the ‘big bend’ in the Jhelum below Domel, showing a winding river viewed from a high altitude
- Folio 53 verso: photograph of Kashmir country, near Rawalkot
- Folio 53 verso: photograph of chil regeneration at Batrasi, North West Frontier Province
- Folio 54 verso: photograph of a ‘fruit blossom’ at Kallar Kahar, showing a tree in blossom
- Folio 55 verso: three photographs showing views of Attock Fort
- Folio 56 verso: photograph of the Indus river at Attock
- Folio 57 verso: two photographs on the Kyber Pass Road showing sheep and camels
- Folio 58 verso: two photographs showing views on the Kyber Pass Road
- Folio 59 verso: photograph showing a locomotive on a section of the Changa Manga Tramway
- Folio 59 verso: photograph in Rakh Sijh Bhuneki showing a group of people standing in open terrain
- Folio 59 verso: photograph showing A A Khan and others walking in open terrain
- Folio 60 verso: photograph of view from Kallar Kahar R.H.
- Folio 60 verso: photograph of a view on the trunk road east of Jhelum
- Folio 61 verso: photograph of an uncommanded area at Khanewal, showing Prosopis, Capparis and Salvadora species of plants
- Folio 61 verso: photograph of Sahewal cattle
- Folio 61 verso: photograph of cattle at Jehangirabad cattle farm
- Folio 62a: handwritten note showing names of persons, and their respective statuses [loose item]
- Folio 63 verso: photograph of an unnamed man seated on a chair and facing the camera, on the Sebastiano Caboto, on the Suez Canal
- Folio 64 verso: photograph of an unnamed man standing, and facing the camera, on the Sebastiano Caboto
- Folio 64 verso: photograph of Harry Champion seated on a chair and facing the camera, on the Sebastiano Caboto
- Folio 67 verso: photograph of research in Khanewal to diagnose the cause of dying Back (die-Back), (showing the base of a sissoo tree with the surrounding soil dug out revealing its roots)
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002291215
036-002291216
040-002291271 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F252 : Papers of Sir Harry Champion, Indian Forest Service 1912-40; Professor of Forestry, Oxford 1940-59
Mss Eur F252/1-80 : Diaries
Mss Eur F252/52 : Ceylon and India Revisited, 1951-52 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002291215[0001]/036-002291216[0055]/040-002291271
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F252
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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1 volume and 101 photographs
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1951
- End Date:
- 1952
- Date Range:
- Dec 1951-Mar 1952
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliated: 67 folios
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)