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SRI LANKA - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of views and "local types" of Sri Lanka, by Skeen & Co., and others, [1870/90s] image 1
SRI LANKA - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of views and "local types" of Sri Lanka, by Skeen & Co., and others, [1870/90s] image 2
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SRI LANKA - PHOTOGRAPHY
Album of views and "local types" of Sri Lanka, by Skeen & Co., and others, [1870/90s]

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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SRI LANKA - PHOTOGRAPHY

Album of views and "local types" of Sri Lanka, by Skeen & Co., and others, 52 large albumen prints (23 signed in the images by Skeen & Co.), approximately 278 x 220mm., mounted one per page recto and verso, 5 smaller albumen prints (approximately 152 x 208mm.), contemporary red diced morocco, gilt-lettered "Ceylon Views" on upper cover, g.e., joints split, hinges strengthened, folio, [1870/90s]

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Good album of Sri Lankan views, including 23 by Skeen & Co. Images include: portraits of local types (9, Kandiyan chief and family, Buddhist priests, fruit sellers, Cocoa gatherers, snake charmers, fishermen on the beach, bullock cart driver, street vendors); views in Colombo (7) and Kandy (9), railway scenes (6, including 2 of a landslide on the line at Meenagalla), elephants (2). The smaller views show workers in the tea trade at Colombo (labeling tea packets, clipping cardamons, packeting tea, loading tea on carts for shipment, printing press at Mortlake store).

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