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Photographs of India
| Title |
India 1872 |
| Reference |
Y3022E |
| Creator |
Various |
| Covering Dates |
circa 1862 (Although the album is dated '1872', many of the photographs were taken earlier.) |
| Extent and Medium |
56 images in 1 album; Good condition. |
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| Content and context |
A collection of captioned photographs in an album. The photographs are views in Calcutta, Barrackpur, Simla, Ootacamund, Tanjore, Trichinopoly and Ceylon. |
| Further information |
Indexed |
| Index Terms |
| Asia |
| India |
| Sri Lanka |
| RCS/Y3022C-E/Y3022E contains: |
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Lord Hardinge's statue & the Ochterlony Monument, Calcutta. 296 x 233 mm. View looking SW across the Maidan, with the equestrian statue of Viscount Henry Hardinge of Lahore in the foreground. Hardinge (1785-1856) was Governor General of India 1844-48. The statue is by John Henry Foley (1818-1874); as well as Hardinge's statue, erected in 1858 and considered his finest work (see Rupert Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851), Foley was also responsible for those of Lord Canning and Sir James Outram in Calcutta, and the figures of Asia and Prince Albert on the Albert Memorial. Beyond Hardinge's statue is the 165 foot tower erected in 1828 in memory of Sir David Ochterlony (1758-1825), conqueror of Nepal in 1814-16. The monument, designed by J.P. Parker, is in a mixture of architectural styles: on a stylobate and pedestal described as 'Egyptian', a Greek Doric column rises to the bulbous Islamic cupola. Beyond the monument a section of Chowringhee Road can be seen. Bourne no. 1698.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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The Town Hall, Calcutta. 294 x 241 mm. View of the S facade of the Town Hall, a two storey building with a terraced roof and hexastyle portico in the Tuscan Doric order. Bourne no. 1700.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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The Bengal Club, Calcutta. 296 x 238 mm. View from Chowringhee of the Bengal Club. Bourne no. 1701.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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The Cathedral, Calcutta. 296 x 238 mm. General view of St Paul's Cathedral, situated at the S. end of the Maidan. Bourne no. 1702.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Government House, Calcutta. 297 x 240 mm. View looking across the garden towards the S facade of Government House. For other images see Y3022AA/1-7. Bourne no. 1706.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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View in the Eden Gardens, Calcutta. 317 x 193 mm. View looking across the ornamental lake in the gardens towards the Burmese pagoda, which was removed from Prome during the Second Burmese War and erected in the gardens in 1856. Bourne no. 1710.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Native boats on the canal at Kali Ghat, Calcutta. 320 x 187 mm. View looking along the canal, with houseboats in the foreground and a bridge beyond. Bourne no. 1714.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Panoramic view of Calcutta from the Ochterlony Monument. 320 x 186 mm. View looking SW from the Ochterlony Monument, across the Maidan and towards Fort William and the River Hooghly. See also Y3022AA/3. Bourne no. 1715.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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The statue of Sir William Peel V.C. K.C.B., Eden Gardens, Calcutta. 309 x 176 mm. Showing the statue of Sir William Peel (1824-1858) by Speed, with the Eden Gardens in the foreground. The third son of Sir Robert Peel, he entered the Royal Navy in 1838 and saw service in China, the Pacific, North America and the West Indies before winning the V.C. as a member of the Naval Brigade at Sevastopol. He commanded the Shannon and led the Naval Brigade in the Indian Mutiny and, after being wounded at Lucknow, died of smallpox at Cawnpore. See also Y3022BB/42. Bourne no. 1728.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Rustic scene and village life in Bengal. 295 x 239 mm. View looking along the street in an Indian village, with thatched huts lining the roadway. Traders' stalls are set up on the verandahs and a number of figures, including one European, are posed in the foreground. Precise location unidentified but probably in the Calcutta area. The photograph is one of a series of ten prints (negative numbers 1730-1739) offered for sale in the Bourne and Shepherd catalogue under this title in the Calcutta section. Duplicate at Y3022G/61. Bourne no. 1730.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Rustic scene in Bengal. 279 x 227 mm. View looking across a palm lined pool towards the thatched houses of an Indian village, with a flat-roofed brick building in European style in the centre. Bourne no. 1731.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Rustic scene and village life in Bengal. 296 x 241 mm. View looking across a pond towards a large mud and thatch house, with villagers posed at the water's edge. Bourne no. 1733.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Rustic scene and village life in Bengal. 287 x 236 mm. View looking across a tank and a pond towards. the thatched huts of a village, with a bullock and two Indians posed among the palm trees in the foreground. Bourne no. 1735.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Rustic scene and village life in Bengal. 316 x 195 mm. View looking across a pond towards the. thatched huts of the village, with Indian figures posed at the water's edge. Duplicate at Y3022G/59. Bourne no. 1738.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Government House, Barrackpore. 296 x 233 mm. View looking across the Mottee Jheel ornamental lake towards the N facade of Government House, Barrackpore. The building is in the form of a single high storey and attic resting on a rusticated arcade above which projects an octastyle Tuscan portico. This finely composed photograph fulfils all the conditions laid down by Bourne for a picturesque. arrangement: five Indian figures are grouped in the foreground while the building itself, with the requisite stretch of water, is framed by the over hanging branch of a tree. The cantonment of Barrackpore is situated on the banks of the Hughli some 15 miles north of Calcutta and became the summer residence of Governor Generals and Viceroys. Lord We11es1ey took over the existing commander's bungalow in 1810 and appointed Charles Wyatt to make changes and repairs. This building was however pulled down in 1804 to make way for a more substantial residence to be designed by Thomas Anbury, but this building in turn had not proceeded far at the time of We11es1ey's recall in 1805 (see Y3022AA/1). The building seen here (again, probably to the designs of Thomas Anbury who was at this period Superintendent of Buildings at. Barrackpore) was completed around 1815 in the Governor Generalship of Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Earl of Moira. A detailed history of the house and its occupants can be found in Curzon, vol. 11, pp. 3046, where this photograph is reproduced. Bourne 1746.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Banian tree, Barrackpore Park. 297 x 239 mm. Showing a European woman seated in the middle of the banian grove in Barrackpore Park. This lady is identified as Bourne's wife in one source (Clark Worswick, The last empire, (Aperture 1976) p. 60), but the authority for this statement is not given. As well as the banian grove which, formerly enclosed by shrubs, had been opened out by Lady Canning, the grounds at Barrackpore also contained a temple of fame, a menagerie and a gothic ruin (see following plate). Bourne no. 1748.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Gothic ruin, with creepers, in Barrackpore Park. 293 x 240 mm. Showing the woman seen in Y3022E/16 seated in Barrackpore Park in front of the ivy and creeper. covered ruins. The date of the construction of these ruins (which were built in picturesque taste, as ruins) has not been determined. Bourne no. 1750.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Chota Simla from Jakko. 296 x 239 mm. View from Jakko looking SW over steep sided wooded hills towards the spur of Chota ('Little') Simla, an offshoot of the town proper situated on a spur to the SE, with bungalows perched on the hillside among the woods. Bourne no. 1789.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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View [of Simla] from Jakko. 299 x 240 mm. View looking From the Jakko hillside, through the trees towards Christ Church. Prior to 1836 church services had been held in a building on a site later occupied by Northbrook Terrace. A regular chaplain was first appointed in 1842 and the cornerstone of Christ Church laid two years later. Although finished some years earlier, the church was not. consecrated until 1857. Bourne no. 1791.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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General view of Simla. 291 x 240 mm. View taken from Jakko (possibly from 'Bonnie Moon' boarding house) looking NW towards the ridge and bazaar, with Christ Church at the right, the bazaar on the hillside to the left and the Government Offices among the trees at the summit of the ridge. Compare with the later view in. Pat Barr and Ray Desmond, 'Simla, a hill station in British India' (1978) p. 56. Duplicate at Y3022B/145. Bourne no. 1793.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Pic-nic among the trees at Annandale. 238 x 296 mm. View looking through the pines towards a. group of bungalows outside the nearest of which a group of Europeans is seated picnicking among the trees, with jampan bearers standing to one side. The area around Annandale, to the north of the town, was a favourite place of recreation and the location of the Simla race-course. Bourne no. 1797.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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The Mall, from Talbot House [Simla]. 298 x 241 mm. View looking eastwards along the Mall, Simla's main street, towards bungalows perched on the hillside among the pines. Talbot House was the Bourne and Shepherd studio in Simla in the 1860s. For a view of the building, see Edward J. Burk, 'Simla past and present' (Calcutta, 1904), p , 152. Bourne no. 1807.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Simla in winter: 'the Cedars', from the Mall. 296 x 239 mm. View from the Mall looking up the snow. covered hillside towards 'The Cedars', a substantial verandahed bungalow set among the pine trees. Bourne no. 1755.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Simla in winter: the Church &c. from near the club. 294 x 240 mm. View looking NW from the. verandah of the United Services Club, showing the Mall in the foreground, with Christ Church and other buildings on the hillside beyond. The viewpoint is similar to plates 19-20, except that in this view the scene is snow covered. Bourne no. 1777.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Simla in winter: View from the south verandah of Talbot House. 298 x 242 mm. View looking over the Mall and snow-covered pines towards distant mountains. Bourne no. 1785.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1860–1869 |
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Ootacamund and the Neigherries: Panoramic view from a spur of Dodabet. 320 x 194 mm. View looking along the Ootacamund valley from a spur of the hill Dodabet, with the Nilgiri Hills in the distance. The view looks across a landscape of rolling fields. dotted with copses and bungalows towards Oolacamund Lake. See also Y3022EE, Y3022FF and Y3022H/40-43. Bourne no. 1954.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1868–1869 |
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The New Church and Lake. 321 x 195 mm. A view from near The Cedars, a house on the. hill overlooking the SW portion of the lake, looking eastwards towards St Thomas' Church, with the Willow Bund and town beyond, and Dodabet in the distance. A petition for a new church to ease the overcrowding in St Stephen's had been made by the citizens of Ootacamund as early as 1853, but it was not. until 1867 that sufficient finances had been raised and the foundation stone was laid. The church was completed in October 1870 and opened for public worship in April 1871. For further details, see Sir Frederick Price, 'Ootacamund, a history' (Madras, 1908), pp. 86-92. Bourne no. 1967.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1868–1869 |
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A quiet 'bit' near the Willow Bund. 320 x 193 mm. View from the N shore of the lake. looking towards the avenue lined with willow trees which divides the stretch of water into two. The nearer portion of the lake, immediately to the south of the town, was filled in between 1896 and 1899 to become the racecourse. Bourne no. 1980.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1868–1869 |
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Through the trees from Lambsknowe. 281 x 220 mm (oval print). View looking S through. the trees over the Ootacamund valley, with bungalows and other houses visible on the distant slopes. A figure is posed in the foreground looking out over the view. Lambsknowe House was situated on the spur of a hill to the NE of the town, a little to the S of Government House. Part of Ottley Road can be. seen at the extreme left of the print. |
1868–1869 |
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The Botanical Gardens, a peep from Lambsknowe. 280 x 221 mm (oval print). View from Lambsknowe (see plate 29) looking SW, with Ootacamund Lake visible in the distance and the ornamental section of the Government Gardens near the shore. |
1868–1869 |
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Waterfall at Peermund. 242 x 294 mm. View looking up the cascades of falls on the Pykara River near Ootacamund (possibly the Khulhulty Falls). Bourne 2008.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1868–1869 |
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Upper waterfall from the river bed [catalogue caption: 'Upper waterfall at Pykara from the river bed']. 293 x 240 mm. View showing a series of cascades on the falls. Bourne no. 2012.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1868–1869 |
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Toola mund, village and Todas. 295 x 244 mm. Showing a group of Toda men and women posed in front of two of their characteristic thatched huts. See Y3022DD/1. Bourne no. 2020.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1868–1869 |
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A succession of rapids, on the Pykara. 319 x 194 mm. View looking upstream along a series of rapids on the Pykara River near Ootacamund. Bourne no. 2034.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1868–1869 |
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The old moat and ramparts of Tanjore. 320 x 193 mm. View looking along the moat with the overgrown remains of the city walls on the right. Situated 170 miles SSW of Madras on the Vennar River, Tanjore was one of the chief cities of the Chola and succeeding Hindu Kingdoms of southern India. Administration of the district. passed to the British government in 1855. Bourne no. 2043.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1869 |
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The Great Stone Bull. 322 x 191 mm. View of the monumental statue of the bull Nandi in the temple courtyard at Tanjore. Carved from a single stab of granite and measuring 16 feet long by 12 feet high, the image is enclosed beneath a flat roof supported by pillars and stands between the gateway into the courtyard. and the temple entrance itself. Bourne no. 2046.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1869 |
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The Great Pagoda. 243 x 293 mm. Showing the monumental vimana or tower over the cella of the great temple. This huge pagoda, completed in the early 11th century, is one of the finest surviving examples of Dravidian temple architecture. Bourne no. 2047.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1869 |
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Carved stone temple near the Pagoda. 296 x 225 mm. General view from the side of the Subrahmanya Temple in the courtyard of the Great Pagoda. This smaller temple is of later date than the main shrine (built in the 17th century), and is described by Fergusson (p. 365), as 'as exquisite a piece of decorative architecture as is to be found in the south of India, and though small, almost divides our admiration with the temple itself'. The temple is a single storey rectangular structure, decorated with pilasters of various design along its. facade, and surmounted at one end by a richly carved pyramid topped by a dome. Bourne no. 2045.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1869 |
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The Inner Goparum (gateway). 295x 242 mm. View of the inner gateway tower of the Great Pagoda at Tanjore. This view of the smaller gateway is taken from the SW, from inside the temple courtyard. A small part of the larger outer gopuram can be seen in the right background. Bourne no. 2050.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1869 |
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River view near Tanjore. 313 x 194 mm. View looking across the Vennar River near Tanjore, with an Indian figure posed in the water in the right foreground. On the further bank among the palm trees is a country residence with an impressive landing place on the riverside flanked by two towers. Bourne no. 2053.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1869 |
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The rock of Trichinopoly from the east. 321 x 191 mm. View looking over the rooftops at part of the town towards the great rock which is situated at the N end of Trichinopoly. The rock has a temple and a fort at its summit, built by a Madura prince between 1660 and 1670. The capital of successive Tamil kingdoms between the 10th and 17th centuries and located 180 miles SW of Madras, Trichinopoly was ceded to the British by the Nawab of Arcot in 1801. Bourne no. 2054.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1869 |
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The rock of Trichinopoly from the tank on the West. 322 x 192 mm. View looking across the tank towards the rock, with domestic residences on the road running along the edge of the reservoir. Bourne no. 2057.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1869 |
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Three small goparums. 321 x 189 mm. View from the top of the 'Thousand Pillar Hall' looking across overgrown courtyards and enclosures towards three of the massive gateways of the great temple at Srirangam just. N of Trichinopoly. For a description of the temple see Fergusson pp. 368-73. Bourne no. 2062.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1869 |
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The eastern Pagoda, from the eastern entrance. 245 x 294 mm, Good condition. View from the eastern goparum looking through the entrance arch towards the eastern pagoda of the temple. Bourne no. 2063.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1869 |
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45
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Mandapum with facade of carved stone horses. 296 x 243 mm. View showing the facade of the 'Court of 1000 pillars' near the east entrance of the Srirangam temple. The 18 ft granite blocks from which the columns are made are elaborately carved in the form of rearing horses with figures beneath. Two Indians are posed in the foreground as an indication of scale. Bourne no. 2064.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1869 |
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46
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Mandapum with facade of carved stone horses. 242 x 292 mm. Bourne no. 2066.
Creator: Bourne, Samuel, 1834-1912, photographer. |
1869 |
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47
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Bope Bridge, Point de Galle. 288 x 229 mm. View looking along a creek or river towards an iron girder bridge, with two men in a catamaran in the foreground and dense vegetation on either side of the stretch of water. |
1871 |
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Group of girls cleaning and sorting coffee. 291 x 215 mm. Showing a group of girls sifting through baskets of coffee beans, with factory buildings in the back ground. Unsigned, no. 2073 scratched out on negative. |
1871 |
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49
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Union of the fig and the palmyra palm. 234 x 284 mm. Showing a fig tree growing round and enveloping the trunk of a Palmyra palm. No. 2080 scratched out on negative. |
1871 |
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50
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View on the Ceylon Railway Incline. 188 x 317 mm. View of the sharp turn in the line and the precipitous drop at the right at Sensation Rock on the Colombo-Kandy Railway. Signed 208 B.& S. 2082.
Creator: Bourne and Shepherd. |
1871 |
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51
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General view from Lady Horton's Walk, Kandy. 317 x 184 mm. View looking west over the Lake, the Esplanade and the town from the road (known as Lady Horton's Drive) running up the hillside behind the Temple of the Tooth. A similar view to Y303A/36. No. 2084 scratched out on negative. |
1871 |
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General view from Arthur's Seat. 316 x 190 mm. View from Gregory Road looking north across the Lake towards the town, with Tricomalee Street running off northwards. The large white building near the lake at the south end of Trincomalee Street is Queen's Hotel. |
1871 |
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General view from Arthur's Seat, showing Buddhist Temple and Library. 315 x 190 mm. View from a similar location to the preceding print, but showing more of the eastern. part of the town. The whole of the Esplanade is visible, with Queen's Hotel at the west end of the Temple of the Tooth at the east. The Buddhist Library is the white building jutting out into the lake at the extreme right. The tower of St Paul's Church can be seen in the centre of the print. No. 2086 scratched out on negative. |
1871 |
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The Lake and portion of the Library. 291 x 235 mm. View from the Pattirippuwa of the Dalada Daligawa (Temple of the Tooth) looking south over the Lake with part of the European Library and Assembly Rooms visible in the left foreground. No. 2091 scratched out on negative. |
1871 |
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55
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View in the Rambodda Pass. 287 x 238 mm. View of the road curving round the steep hillside in the pass between Gampola and Newara Eliya, with a river in the right foreground. No. 2107 scratched out on negative, replaced by 2153. |
1871 |
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The Ouvah Country. Gampaha Coffee Estate and native paddy fields. 304 x 191 mm. View looking across terraced paddy fields with labourers at work in the foreground, towards hilly partially cleared land beyond. |
1871 |
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