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Photo 210/1(62)
- Record Id:
- 041-003056290
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003056227
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025702187.0x000763
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100144469483.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 210/1(62)
- Title:
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Cleaning & sorting coffee, Colombo. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Historical Events
Group of female estate workers with baskets of coffee in courtyard in front of factory buildings.
[Albumen print].
Subjects = coffee; coffee industry; women
Location = Ceylon; Colombo; Sri Lanka; Western Province
Photograph taken by Bourne and Shepherd in c.1870 of a group of estate workers cleaning and sorting coffee in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). The photograph shows the female workers with baskets of coffee in the courtyard in front of the factory buildings. The British began a plantation-based economy in Sri Lanka in the 1830s and their coffee experiment took off with resounding success. The booming coffee industry was ruined when a leaf disease spread through the plantations by the 1870s. The plantation owners looked for a substitute crop and found tea a suitable replacement.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003056227
040-003056228
041-003056290 - Is part of:
- Photo 210 : 'Journey of 1871-2. Photographs. A. W.' (Two volumes.) Photographer(s): Arnoux, Hippolyte
Photo 210/1 : 'Journey of 1871-2. Photographs. A. W'. [Vol. I]. Photographer(s): Arnoux, Hippolyte
Photo 210/1(62) : Cleaning & sorting coffee, Colombo. Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd - Hierarchy:
- 032-003056227[0001]/040-003056228[0062]/041-003056290
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 210
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100144469483.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1869
- End Date:
- 1871
- Date Range:
- c 1870
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known