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Photo 406/2(55)
- Record Id:
- 041-003081776
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003081668
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025862941.0x000253
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100144556699.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 406/2(55)
- Title:
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Colombo. The Fort & Lake. Photographer: Scowen and Company, Charles T.
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
View looking south towards the Galle Face Promenade, with barracks in the foreground and the Galle Face Cemetery on the farther side of the lake. Photograph uncredited, but probably by Scowen & Co.
Subjects = barracks; military (general); military facilities
Location = Ceylon; Colombo; Sri Lanka; Western Province
Photograph of the Fort and lake at Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, taken in the 1880s by Scowen & Co, from an album of 62 views of India and Ceylon. This view looks south towards the Galle Face Promenade (so-called because it faced in the direction of Galle), with the barracks in the foreground and the Galle Face Cemetery on the farther side of the lake. The original 17th century Dutch Fort no longer exists but the district which covers the site of the old city at the heart of Colombo is still called The Fort today. The district is where the business and commercial centre is located as well as the main institutions of the Republic such as the senate and the residence of the President.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003081668
040-003081721
041-003081776 - Is part of:
- Photo 406 : Photographs of the Middle East, India and Ceylon. Photographer(s): Arnoux, Hippolyte
Photo 406/2 : Album of views of India and Ceylon Photographer(s): Nicholas and Company
Photo 406/2(55) : Colombo. The Fort & Lake. Photographer: Scowen and Company, Charles T. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003081668[0002]/040-003081721[0055]/041-003081776
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 406
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100144556699.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1880
- End Date:
- 1889
- Date Range:
- 1880s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
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