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Sri Lanka

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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Album of photographs of Ceylon and India by William Louis Henry Skeen, 1868

Album of albumen prints, mostly in Ceylon, including railways and landscapes.
Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 66
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1868
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Album of photographs of southeast Asia, 1885-1895

Album by an unknown photographer, containing 96 photographs, including topography and portraits in China, Ceylon, Japan, and various other locations in southeast Asia. Many photographs are hand coloured.
Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 38
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1885-1895
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India and Ceylon by Howard, Bourne & Shepherd, 1860-1870

Photographically-illustrated book of albumen prints, containing views and landscapes of India and Ceylon.
Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 60
Extents: 1 item
Dates: 1860-1870
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Papers of Alexander Garden Fraser

Memoranda, press cuttings, printed items, correspondence, reports, articles and speeches relating to Fraser's work as a missionary and teacher in Uganda, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Scotland and Jamaica. Included are circular letters (entitled "Journals" and "Letter to Prayer Helpers") written by Fraser and his wife whilst in Uganda, Ceylon and the Gold Coast, and letters from Fraser to his wife and son ("Sandy").
Extents: 12 boxes
Dates: 1900-1962
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Papers of Sir Edward Brandis Denham

Diaries covering Mauritius (1921-1923), Kenya (1923-1928), Gambia (1928-1930), British Guiana (1930-1934) and Jamaica (1934-1938). 30 volumes. Also, papers relating to Ceylon (1911-1917), Gambia (1816-1929) and British Guiana (1806-1932), including some 19th century papers dated before Denham's time. 2 boxes.
Extents: 30 volumes and 2 boxes
Dates: 1806-1938
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Photographs from India and Ceylon by Charles Scowen, 1875

Forty one albumen photographs from a disassembled album. Views from around India and of tea plantations in Sri Lanka. With a handwritten list of prints. The original album had a written dedication: 'H.S.S. and W.R.C Feby 1875'. It originally included 67 prints, with photographs by Samuel Bourne, Charles Shepherd, Shepherd & Robertson, and John Edward Saché. These have been separated and are now likely among the Bourne and Saché prints in the Wilson Collection.
Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 81
Extents: 42 items
Dates: 1875