Labourers picking coffee at Sir Thomas Lipton Estate, Sri Lanka
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1890 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
86 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520668.7
Summary
Albumen print stereograph, Underwood and Underwood, Labourers picking coffee on Sir Thomas Lipton's Estate, Dambatenne, Haputale, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), c. 1890-1910. The print mounted on grey card with rounded corners.
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Marks and inscriptions
Recto, bottom right: [This original caption contains language that is outdated and offensive. It is retained here in the interest of research and historical data] '29) (-8748) Coolies picking coffee on Sir Thomas Liptons Estate at Dambutenne, Interior Ceylon. Copyright 1903 by Underwood & Underwood.' Recto, left: 'Underwood and Underwood. Publishers./ New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas.' Recto, right: 'Works and Studios - Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J' Verso: [This original caption contains language that is outdated and offensive. It is retained here in the interest of research and historical data] Description of location and 'Coolies picking coffee on Sir Thomas Liptons Estate at Dambutenne, Interior Ceylon', printed in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian.
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, publisher