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Photo 752/10(11)
- Record Id:
- 041-003103842
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003103471
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026024896.0x0001be
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100145079200.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 752/10(11)
- Title:
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Newera Eliya [Sri Lanka]. Photographer: Plâté, A. W. A.
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
General view along the valley. Platinum print.
Subjects = hill stations; Macnabb Collection
Location = Ceylon; Nuwara Eliya; Sri Lanka
Photograph of a general view along the valley at Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka taken by A.W.A. Plate & Co. in c.1900. This hill-station, whose name means 'above the clouds', was surrounded by tea plantations which became the most important crop on the island after the failure of coffee in the 1880s. T.H.Holdich wrote of this area in the Imperial Gazeteer of India, 'No measured language can express the beauties of Ceylon scenery...from Kandy to Nuwara Elia, where the softer and gentler beauty of the Nilgiris is repeated in rounded slopes and lakes and patches of indigenous sholas [wooded copses] amid the mountains, there are endless vistas of transcendent beauty.'
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003103471
040-003103831
041-003103842 - Is part of:
- Photo 752 : Macnabb Collection: photographs relating to the Macnabb and Reid families in England, India and elsewhere.
Photo 752/10 : Macnabb Collection (James Lostock Ironside Reid): Album of views of India, Sri Lanka and Burma Photographer(s): Klier, Philip Adolphe
Photo 752/10(11) : Newera Eliya [Sri Lanka]. Photographer: Plâté, A. W. A. - Hierarchy:
- 032-003103471[0010]/040-003103831[0011]/041-003103842
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 752
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100145079200.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1899
- End Date:
- 1901
- Date Range:
- c 1900
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Format: Bound in Volume
Secondary Support: Card
- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known