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Photo 1116/2(59)
- Record Id:
- 041-003176917
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003176789
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100026599950.0x000ca3
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Photo 1116/2(59)
- Title:
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Breakwater Works, Colombo, 1898 [c. 1875-80]. Photographer: Colombo Apothecaries Company
- Scope & Content:
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Genre: Landscape Photography
View of the works at the base of the breakwater, with piles of masonry stacked beside the railway line being shifted with gantry cranes. The breakwater was completed in 1885 and this view appears to date from an early stage in its construction. With cannons on the fort ramparts in the foreground.
[Albumen print, 277x216mm].
Subjects = breakwaters; civil engineering; harbours
Location = Ceylon; Colombo; Sri Lanka; Western Province
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003176789
040-003176859
041-003176917 - Is part of:
- Photo 1116 : Crofton Collection: Photographs of Hong Kong, China Ceylon and Zanzibar.
Photo 1116/2 : Crofton Collection: 'Hongkong, Suez Canal, Pompei, Ceylon, West River.' Photographer(s): Colombo Apothecaries Company
Photo 1116/2(59) : Breakwater Works, Colombo, 1898 [c. 1875-80]. Photographer: Colombo Apothecaries Company - Hierarchy:
- 032-003176789[0002]/040-003176859[0058]/041-003176917
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Photo 1116
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Start Date:
- 1874
- End Date:
- 1876
- Date Range:
- c 1875-1880
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Material Type:
- Photographs
- Legal Status:
- Not Known
- Names:
- Colombo Apothecaries Company