Ceylon Collection (page 12)

Kandyan Chiefs - Sri Lanka Date: circa 1910s

CANDLE FLY
The Candle Fly from Ceylon. Date: 1901

Events / Ceylon 1650S
A clash between the Dutch and Portugese during their struggle for supremacy in Ceylon Date: 1650s

Packing Tea, Ceylon
Packing tea on a Ceylon estate. Date: 1905

Colombo - The Bristol Hotel
Colombo, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) - The Bristol Hotel, boasting the " Best Cuisine in the East - Curries a speciality"

A man and woman of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). A book of national types and costumes from the early 19th century

Sri Lanka - Picking and weighing tea
Picking and weighing Green Tea in Sri Lanka

French battleship WWII
French battleship Richelieu at Trincomalee, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), as seen from the USS Saratoga. Behind can be seen the HMS Queen Elizabeth

The Wharf - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Sri Lankan Chief
A Sri Lankan Kandyan chief in his finery

Poster depicting tea picking in Ceylon
Poster for the Empire Marketing Board, depicting women picking tea in Ceylon

Better impressions by sea
Poster encouraging people to travel by sea for Better Impressions. Places visited on the way include the UK, Egypt, Sudan, East and South Africa, the Persian Gulf, India, Ceylon, Pakistan, Malaya

Sri Lanka - Pettah Mosque, Colombo

Sri Lanka - Tamil Woman

Colombo - Sri Lanka
Scenes from Colombo, Sri Lanka, including an elephant, the Harbour and the Galle Face Hotel

Sri Lanka - Veddahs cooking
The Wanniyala-Aetto, or forest people, more commonly known as Veddas or Veddahs are an indigenous people of Sri Lanka - seen here preparing a meal

Singhalese Villager - Sri Lanka
A young man from a Singahlese Village in Sri Lanka poses for a photograph amid some banana plants, holding a seriously lethal-looking cleaver!

Temple at Kochchikade, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Buddhist Temple at Kochchikade, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Tapping a rubber tree - Ceylon
A woman in Ceylon tapping a rubber tree with traditional techniques

Point de Galle Lighthouse, Ceylon, 1847
Engraving of a lighthouse intended for the Point de Galle, Ceylon (Sri Lanka). The lighthouse was built out of cast-iron plates, secured by nuts, bolts and iron cement

The Preparation of Cinnamon in Ceylon
Series of illustrations in The Graphic showing the preparation of cinnamon in Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka). 1. Cutting cinnamon sticks. 2. Peeling the Sticks. 3. Stretching the Cinnamon Bark. 4

A Surf-Boat, Sri Lanka, 1887
Engraving of a Sri Lankan (then Ceylon) surf-boat, under sail, riding the waves, from The Graphic, 1887. With an outrigger and fairly large sail, this vessel looks a stout craft

Manna Explained
explained by H N Grimm as not miraculous at all, but a substance that is dropped by insects such as these which are found in Ceylon

Banyan Baptism, Ceylon
The ceremony of giving a child its name among the Banians

Temple Bar 1930S
Temple Bar from the Strand, central London, showing fashionable ladies shopping near The Ceylon Shop, The Shop that is Different

British Depose King / 1815
British officials depose the king of Kandy

Gun Lascar Ceylon 1892
Gun Lascar Corps of Ceylon (British colonial troops)

Sri Lankan Boy Scouts
A party of boy scouts from Ceylon (Sri Lanka), rehearsing at Clapham, London, on their way to the World Jamboree in Hungary

Hanuman / Bridge to Ceylon
Hanuman, the monkey god, and his monkey companions build the Bridge of Rama to Ceylon

Rickshaw Sri Lanka
A European gentleman in a solar topee is about to be taken in a rickshaw in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

Racial / Sri Lanka / Barber
A Tamil barber shaves a customers head

Sri Lanka / Coast Scene
Coastal scene with Palmyra palm trees

Catching Horses, Ceylon
The Catching of Horses in Jafnapatnam, on the Island of Ceylon

Dutch Take Colombo
The Dutch land in Ceylon 1602, and lay siege to Colombo the following year, under the command of general Gerard Hulst. Subsequently amicable relations are established

Dutch & Emperor Ceylon
A Draught of the most Splendid Audience given by ye Emperor of Ceylon, King of Candy, to Gerard Hulst, ye Dutch General. (The Dutch land 1602, take Colombo 1603)

Bewick Squirrel Longtail
About three times the size of European squirrels, this rodent is found in Ceylon and Malabar

Events / Ceylon
Dutch settlement in Ceylon

Ceylon Governor Knighted
Edward, Prince of Wales, confers knighthood on the Governor of Ceylon

Buddha / Peeps at Ceylon
BUDDHA Siddhartha Gautama A statue of Buddha in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)

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