SKEEN & CO. and others

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SKEEN & CO. and others
Ceylon, circa 1870s

Album containing thirty-eight albumen prints, each approx. 8¼ x 10¾ in., several with blindstamp Photographers W.L.H. Skeen & Co. Colombo Ceylon on recto, titled in ink and numbered in pencil on mounts, full blue morocco, 4to.; with another album containing seventy-eight albumen prints of Ceylon, blue morocco (front cover detached), lge. 4to. (2)

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Mainly views around Colombo and including a native street scene, railway views, seascapes, an image of India Rubber trees, a water scene with cows by Gampola Bridge, three views of Rambodde Falls and three portrait studies. The second album includes an image of a man by a Jack tree and eight costume studies.

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