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*Ceylon. A photo album covering Sir Robert Chalmers's period of Governorship of Ceylon, from his appointment in September 1913 to May 1915, approx. 180. gelatin silver and platinum photos, the majority chronicling civic functions attended by Sir Robert Chalmers, all mounted and the majority with detailed pencil captions with dates to mounts, some images with pen or pencil identification marks, approx. 29 x 22 cm and smaller, contemp. cloth, rubbed and soiled, hinges broken and covers detached, oblong folio, together with two unrelated photo. albums Sir Robert Chalmers (1858-1938) was appointed Governor of Ceylon on 26th September 1913 and returned to England in December 1915. These chronologically arranged photographs go up to the period just before the riots of May and June 1915, between native Buddhists and Muslim immigrants from India. (3)
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*Ceylon. A photo album covering Sir Robert Chalmers's period of Governorship of Ceylon, from his appointment in September 1913 to May 1915, approx. 180. gelatin silver and platinum photos, the majority chronicling civic functions attended by Sir Robert Chalmers, all mounted and the majority with detailed pencil captions with dates to mounts, some images with pen or pencil identification marks, approx. 29 x 22 cm and smaller, contemp. cloth, rubbed and soiled, hinges broken and covers detached, oblong folio, together with two unrelated photo. albums Sir Robert Chalmers (1858-1938) was appointed Governor of Ceylon on 26th September 1913 and returned to England in December 1915. These chronologically arranged photographs go up to the period just before the riots of May and June 1915, between native Buddhists and Muslim immigrants from India. (3)
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