Sri Lanka
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Album of photographs of Ceylon and India by William Louis Henry Skeen, 1868
File
Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 66
Album of albumen prints, mostly in Ceylon, including railways and landscapes.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
1868
Album of photographs of southeast Asia, 1885-1895
File
Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 38
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.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
1885-1895
India and Ceylon by Howard, Bourne & Shepherd, 1860-1870
File
Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 60
Photographically-illustrated book of albumen prints, containing views and landscapes of India and Ceylon.
Extents: 1 item
Dates:
1860-1870
Newspaper cuttings relating to Africa, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), New Zealand, Jamaica, the US, and the UK
Collection
Newspaper cuttings relating to Africa, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), New Zealand, Jamaica, the US, and the UK.
Extents: 0.95 linear metres (15 boxes)
Dates:
1943-1956
Papers of Alexander Garden Fraser
Collection
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
Papers of Sir Edward Brandis Denham
Collection
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
Photographic portraits of Sri Lanka, 1865-1875
File
Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 114
Photographic portraits of people in Sri Lanka. Featuring some candid photographs, but most are posed potrait photographs.
Extents: 134 items
Dates:
1865-1875
Photographs from India and Ceylon by Charles Scowen, 1875
File
Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 81
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.
Extents: 42 items
Dates:
1875
Photographs of Sri Lanka, 1865-1875
File
Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 115
Photographic views and landscapes in Sri Lanka.
Extents: 138 items
Dates:
1865-1875
Photographs of Sri Lanka by S.K. Lawton, 1865-1875
File
Shelfmark: MS. 23051 photogr. 113
Photographic views of Sri Lanka with a focus on the ruins of Pollauarua, the ruins of Aunradhapura, topographic views, and various landscapes, railways, and animals.
Extents: 83 items
Dates:
1865-1875