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Maradana, Sri Lanka

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A street scene in Maradana, a suburb of Colombo, in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. People in traditional clothing walk up and down a dirt lane between two...

Date Published
1894 to 1900
Member of
Jacob L. Loose Collection

Market

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An open air market place is crowded with men and women. There are baskets of melons, shelves of vegetables, and baskets that are covered with a cloth...

Date Published
1895 to 1900
Member of
Jacob L. Loose Collection

Peasant woman carries a basket on her head

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A peasant woman in Japan carries a large, round basket with low sides on her head, as she smiles at the camera. The basket is filled with large leaves...

Member of
Jacob L. Loose Collection

Sri Lanka man plays a pungi for a cobra snake to move to

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A barefoot Sri Lankan man in traditional clothing, who is a snake charmer, crouches on the ground and closes his eyes as he plays a pungi in Sri Lanka...

Date Published
1891 to 1900
Member of
Jacob L. Loose Collection

Tea laborer harvesting tea leaves

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A Tamil woman laborer looks down as she is plucking tea leaves from a tea bush in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. She carries a basket from a strap around...

Date Published
1894 to 1900
Member of
Jacob L. Loose Collection
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  • Baskets

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  • Jacob L. Loose Collection (5)

Types

  • photographs (5)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (5)
  • Portrait photographs (3)
  • Group portraits (2)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • (-) Albumen prints (5)

Subjects

  • Sri Lankans (2)
  • Carriages and carts (1)
  • Cobras (1)
  • Donkeys (1)
  • Harvesting (1)
  • Japanese (1)
  • Markets (1)
  • Melons (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Rickshaws (1)
  • Snake charmers (1)
  • Snakes (1)
  • Tamil (Indic people) (1)
  • Tea (1)
  • Tea plantation workers (1)
  • Women (1)
  • Women tea plantation workers (1)
  • Woodwind instruments (1)
  • (-) Baskets (5)

Date Published

  • 1894/1900 (2)
  • 1891/1900 (1)
  • 1895/1900 (1)

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