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Collection of loose albumen prints mounted on card, measuring approximately 185 x 130 mm, uncaptioned.<\/p>
The prints are accompanied by an off-print from The Ceylon Observer of 16 January 1866 describing W.A. Fernando's exhibits at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of that year. These are probably the prints that were on view during the exhibition. W.A. Fernando (d. 1901), a Singhalese pioneer of the plumbago industry, set up as a merchant in this commodity in 1854; as well as trading in Plumbago, his firm owned a couple of mines, the principal ones being at Hikgaha, Goluwanmulla and Himbutamulle.<\/p>" }, { "label": "Author(s)", "value": "W L H Skeen and Co" }, { "label": "Date of Creation", "value": "circa 1886" }, { "label": "Title", "value": "Plumbago in Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], c.1886" }, { "label": "Author(s) of the Record", "value": "RMR" }, { "label": "Classmark", "value": "Y303F" }, { "label": "Associated Place(s)", "value": "Asia (continent); Sri Lanka (nation)" } ], "@type": "sc:Manifest", "attribution": "Provided by Cambridge University Library. Images are in copyright. All rights reserved. Images made available for download are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 3.0) This metadata is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.", "structures": [ { "ranges": [ "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/PH-Y-00303-F/range/PART-1", "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/PH-Y-00303-F/range/PART-2", "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/PH-Y-00303-F/range/PART-3", "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/PH-Y-00303-F/range/PART-4" ], "@type": "sc:Range", "@id": "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/PH-Y-00303-F/range/DOCUMENT", "label": "Plumbago in Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], c.1886" }, { "ranges": [], "@type": "sc:Range", "@id": "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/PH-Y-00303-F/range/PART-1", "label": "Y303F: 1: [A plumbago mine]" }, { "ranges": [], "@type": "sc:Range", "@id": "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/PH-Y-00303-F/range/PART-2", "label": "Y303F: 2: [Plumbago specimens]" }, { "ranges": [], "@type": "sc:Range", "@id": "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/PH-Y-00303-F/range/PART-3", "label": "Y303F: 3: [Sorting plumbago]" }, { "ranges": [], "@type": "sc:Range", "@id": "https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/iiif/PH-Y-00303-F/range/PART-4", "label": "Y303F: 4: [Specimens of plumbago]" } ], "description": "
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