Photographs of Sri Lanka
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: FSA A1994.05
name: label: Photographer
content: Scowen & Co.
place: label: Place
content: Kandy (Sri Lanka)
label: Place
content: Sri Lanka (Ceylon) -- Kandy -- Kandy
topic: label: Topic
content: Families -- Sri Lanka
creator: label: Photographer
content: Scowen & Co.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: British photographer Charles T. Scowen arrived in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the early 1870s, where he was first employed as a clerk. By 1876, Scowen had established a studio, Scowen & Co., in Kandy, with a second location appearing in Columbo by the 1890s. There appear to have been several Scowens working in the studios, as Charles T. Scowen returned to England in 1885. C. Scowen was listed as the proprietor until 1891 and M. Scowen was the proprietor when the firm was finally sold in 1893. Images from Scowen & Co. were used to illustrate a number of books about Ceylon and the tea trade.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 3 Prints (albumen)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1880s
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History
content: Purchase, 1994.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: FSA.A1994.05
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Prints
label: Type
content: Landscapes (representations)
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Portraits
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: One flat box.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Landscapes (representations) -- Ceylon
label: Genre/Form
content: Albumen prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
label: Genre/Form
content: Portraits
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Three albumen prints by the studio of Scowen & Co., circa 1880s, depicting a lake in Kanda, a group of Kandyan chiefs, and T.B. Panabokka and his family. Panabokka was the Kandyan member of the Legislative Council.