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Boy from Sri Lanka

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A profile view of the head and chest of an unidentified boy in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. His hair is pulled back in a low bun just above his neck...

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

Boys with a pineapple

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Two unidentified boys are one holding a pineapple in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. One boy sits on a table in the center of the photograph and another boy...

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

Brahmin woman

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An unidentified Brahmin woman in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon], stands in front of banana leaves with her hands crossed on her lap as she looks off to the...

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

Bullock cart and Sri Lanken men and boys in front of a market

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Unidentified men and boys, barefoot and in traditional clothing, look at the camera as they stand on a sidewalk in front of an open-air market with...

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

Chief of Kandy and his family in Sri Lanka

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A Kandian chief and family are wearing traditional clothing and jewelry as they sit or stand in a room in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. He is the...

Member of
Jacob L. Loose Collection

Chiefs of Kandy, Sri Lanka, with British Governor of Ceylon, Blake

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Kandyan chiefs stand outdoors in two rows in tradition clothing and daggers for chiefs at that time, with the British Governor of Ceylon, Henry Arthur...

Member of
Jacob L. Loose Collection

Devil dancers and drummer in Sri Lanka

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Four dancers in costume pose in the street with a wall behind them in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. A drummer sits on the path in profile on the right side...

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

elephant with two men

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In a profile photograph, an unidentified man sits on the neck of an elephant and rides as another unidentified man, called a mahout (trainer, keeper)...

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

Ella Loose and a Sri Lankan boy at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

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Ella Loose stands at the road at the beginning of a path into the Royal Botanical Garden of Peradeniya with an unidentified Sri Lanken boy [then...

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

Exposition to exhibit the Buddha's tooth

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Buddhists monks gather around a low, small table with a tablecloth, on which religious objects are displayed for the exposition of the Buddha's tooth...

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

Grand Oriental Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka

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The Grand Oriental Hotel and street intersection in Colombo, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. People stand in the road by the side of the hotel on the left...

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

Man stands on lane that runs under a Banyan tree

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An unidentified Sri Lankan man stands with his hand resting on his hip along a lane that passes under the split roots and trunk of a banyan tree. Each...

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

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

Perahera

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A street in Sri Lanka is very crowded as the Perahera, an annual Buddhist procession during the Festival of the Tooth in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]...

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

Pilgrims

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Pilgrimage group at an unidentified location in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. Part of the group sit on the ground, and benches, or stand in rows outside a...

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

Queen's Hotel, Kandy, Sri Lanka

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Many people stand along the street in front of a wall for the Queen's Hotel in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. On the extreme left of the photograph...

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

Royal palace complex

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Kandy Lake with the royal palace complex, containing Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa), in the background on the other side of the lake in Kandy...

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

Rubber tree clearing

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A hill filled with stumps of Manihot Glaziovii, a tree that produces Ceara India-Rubber that have been clear cut in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. A Sri...

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

Singhalese fishing boat

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A Sri Lankan man stands by the mast of the sail on the framework where the outrigger is attached to the boat in a Sinhalese fishing boat called a Bala...

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

Six men stand in the inner Temple of the Tooth

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Unidentified group standing in front of inner Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa) in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. Six men stand in front of a...

Date Published
1894 to 1900
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

Street performers in Sri Lanka

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Three unidentified, barefoot street performers pose on a path in front of a cliff in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. Two dancers in costume gesture with...

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

Street scene in Sri Lanka

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A street scene in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon] of crowded roads of people walking, some carrying baskets on their heads, some carrying umbrellas, and...

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

Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka

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Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa) in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon], is surrounded by a moat that has a parapet between the moat and the lane and...

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

Two men pose with statues of God Murugan and his peacock

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Two unidentified Sri Lankan men are in front of a roof supported by poles with two large statues of iconography (Hindu God Murugan and peacock) that...

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

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