Sri Lanka
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Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Elephants at Work, Ceylon, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3416
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a man riding an elephant as it works to clear tree branches in a forest in Ceylon in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Hevea Braziliensis at Henavatogoda Gardens, Ceylon, 30 Years Old, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3254
Scope and Contents
Illustration by Henry Wickham of a man standing next to a 30 year old Hevea Braziliensis tree at the Henavatogoda Gardens, Ceylon, [Sri Lanka] in 1906. The text beneath the image notes that the drawing is from a photograph by Ivor Etherington, Esq. of Colombo.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Horne Papers relating to plantations in Sri Lanka
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1810
Content Description
The papers of Jack Horne and Joan L. G. Horne relating to the plantation industry in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) are composed of...:
Diaries - four 'Letts's' diaries: 1878, 1879, 1880, and 1881
Ledger - dated with entries June 1909 to August 1918
Notebook - various notes on e.g.: bulking teas, shipping, charcoal, tea exchanges, and acreages
Folder - containing Short History of the Ceylon and Indian Planters'...
Dates:
1881-1937
Liaison files of the Service Arts and Technical Organization, 1943-1946
Series
Identifier: PJM/SATO/C
Scope and Contents
Liaison files of the Service Arts and Technical Organization consists of:
material concerning the Organisation of Service Architects, Ceylon, 1943-1945
support from the School of Planning and Research for Regional Development (SPRRD), 1944-1946
proposals for technical education as submitted to GHQ, 1944
liaison with the Association of Building Technicians,...
Dates:
1943-1946
Manuscript notes and introductions for lectures on head injuries , April 1964-January 1965
File
Identifier: Coll-32/D.197
Scope and Contents
Manuscript notes and introductions for lectures on head injuries by Norman Dott. The lectures were given in Amsterdam, April 1964, Colombo, Sri Lanka, November 1964, and Prasat, Thailand, January 1965.
Dates:
April 1964-January 1965
Material relating to research into plantation industry in Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Fonds — Box CLX-A-1324, Folder: Coll-1813 / SC-Acc-2017-0062, n/a: data_value_missing_641d027d711bd596bc7c91fa33ba26ff
Identifier: Coll-1813
Content Description
This material relating to research into the plantation industry in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) contains:
accounts of life as a planter family
correspondence
cuttings
researcher correspondence
Dates:
1969 - 1972
New Zealand trip, 1948, 1943-1948
Series
Identifier: BAI 2/4
Scope and Contents
New Zealand trip, 1948, consists of:
- correspondence and notes
- leaflets, books and booklets
- maps and travel guides
- newspapers and cuttings
- photographs and postcards
Dates:
1943-1948
Old Para Rubber Tree, Henerat[h]goda, [Sri Lanka], 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/3225
Scope and Contents
Photograph of a man in a white suit holding a pipe standing next to an old Para rubber tree that has been tapped using a herring bone pattern in Henerat[h]goda, [Sri Lanka] in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Organisation of Service Architects in Ceylon, 1943-1945
File
Identifier: PJM/SATO/C/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondence with and information about the Organisation of Service Architects of Ceylon (OSAC). Includes broadsheets produced by OSAC, lecture notes and press clippings concerning the opening of the 12th Army SATO Polytechnic.
Dates:
1943-1945
Palm-leaf manuscript collection of Nigel Seeley
Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1970
Content Description
Palm-leaf manuscript collection of Nigel Seeley, consisting of 13 palm leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka. There exists little information on their nature and their content, but they are probably Buddhist works in the Pali language (the language of the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism) dating from the mid 18th to late 19th century CE, and were collected by Nigel Seeley in the mid-late 20th century. Most of them have interesting and varied decorative wooden covers.
Dates:
mid 18th-late 19th century