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Photo 406/2(56)
- Record Id:
- 041-003081777
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003081668
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100025862941.0x000254
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100144556703.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 406/2(56)
- Title:
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Colombo. The Grand Oriental Hotel. Photographer: Scowen and Company, Charles T.
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Architectural Photography
View looking along the street towards the Grand Oriental Hotel, with an arcade of commercial premises in the foreground. Photograph uncredited, but probably by Scowen & Co.
Subjects = British colonial architecture; hotels
Location = Ceylon; Colombo; Sri Lanka; Western Province
Photograph taken by Scowen & Co. in the 1880s of the Grand Oriental Hotel in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, from an album of 62 views of India and Ceylon. The view looks along the street towards the hotel with an arcade of commercial premises in the foreground. The building was constructed in 1837 and originally housed British soldiers. It was converted to a hotel in 1875 and is situated on the waterfront near the harbour and the district known as 'The Fort', the commercial centre of the city and the original site of the now non-existent 17th century Dutch Fort.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003081668
040-003081721
041-003081777 - 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(56) : Colombo. The Grand Oriental Hotel. Photographer: Scowen and Company, Charles T. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003081668[0002]/040-003081721[0056]/041-003081777
- 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_100144556703.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- 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:
- Not Known