Ceylon Photograph Album
Processed by D. Tambo
Department of Special Collections
© 2003
Davidson Library
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
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Ceylon Photograph Album, 1937
Collection number: Bernath Mss 58
Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara- Department of Special Collections
- Davidson Library
- University of California, Santa Barbara
- Santa Barbara, CA 93106
- Phone: (805) 893-3062
- Fax: (805) 893-5749
- Email: special@library.ucsb.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/speccoll/speccoll.html
- Processed by:
- D. Tambo
- Date Completed:
- 01 August 2003
- Encoded by:
- David C. Gartrell
© 2003 Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Ceylon Photograph Album,
Date (inclusive): 1937
Collection Number: Bernath Mss 58
Creator:
Hansell, Walter C.
Extent:
.2 linear feet
(1 half-size box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Ceylon Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 58. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa
Barbara.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photograph album of Walter C. Hansell, 1937, containing 100+ black/white snapshots and some picture postcards, all with captions.
Included are ship-board views taken on the voyage from England to Ceylon [Sri Lanka], shots of Gibraltar, Port Said, the Suez
Canal, and Aden. The bulk of photos are taken in Ceylon, around the Mount Lavinia Grand Hotel on the coast near Colombo, and
around the hill country of Kandy, in the center of Sri Lanka. The Kandy photos include Sinhalese and Tamils in daily activities
and work, gardens, temples, shrines, street scenes, markets, Afghan money lenders, Chinese silk merchant, sacred and working
elephants, and lake and mountain scenes.
Box
Photograph album, 1937