The Ceylon Plates

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Old photographs of Central highlands

Photographs from the coffee and tea districts of the hill country, where the exact estate is not known.

TCP-A138Planter's bungalow with lattice verandahCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O24Men pruning tea bushesCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O73Tea bushes and figure (unusually dense)Central highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-L152Forest slopes with lone tree and distant peakCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-N8Coffee shrub in full leafCentral highlands · 1883TCP-N33Coffee bush in blossomCentral highlands · c. 1875–1890TCP-O33Tea rolling machineCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-P432Crowd of workers with sacks at a tea factoryCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-A136Planter's bungalow, fenced gardenCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O39Sorting table and tea heaps with chestsCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O51Tea pluckers close viewCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O32Tea withering loft or lower floorCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O36Tea sorting tables with workersCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-A123Estate bungalow and terraces in hillsCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-N67Talipot palm in flower with thin palmCentral Sri Lanka (probable) · c. 1880–1900TCP-T112Locomotive on hill line with a conical peak behindHill line, central highlands · c. 1885–1905TCP-L212Hill valley with cleared slopesCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-P234Tea pluckerCentral highlands · c. 1885–1905TCP-L200Valley with green slopesCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-N62Talipot palm in flowerCentral Sri Lanka (probable) · c. 1880–1900TCP-L215Mountain slopes with stumps and new plantingCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-L210Hill road beneath an overhanging rockCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-T113Curving line and tunnel on a mountainsideHill line, central highlands · c. 1885–1905TCP-A145Estate bungalow below ridgeCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-A121Planter's bungalow, tea or coffee countryCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O41Soldering and stencilling Ceylon tea chestsCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-A140Estate buildings by a rocky streamCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-P237Tea plucker with basketCentral highlands · c. 1885–1905TCP-O22Workers in new tea nursery bedsCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O71Tea slopes with shade trees and bungalowCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-N72Tea flowers and leaves, botanical studyCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-A150Bungalow beneath forested hillCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O78Long tea factory interior, chestsCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-A153Square shingle-roofed bungalow with people on porchCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O74Sorting tea leaf with machineCentral highlands · c. 1885–1905TCP-N168Forest edge with low bushes and figureCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O68Newly felled forest, charred trunksCentral highlands · c. 1880–1910TCP-O47Workers at tea sifting tablesCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-A157Bungalow among conifers below steep hillCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O70Tea slopes and mountainsCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-P433Workers at a factory shed in hill forestCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O50Felled and burnt land in a valleyCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-L153Forest and conical hillCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-A154Estate buildings on terraced hillsideCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-P295Woman with sack among coffee or tea branchesCentral highlands · c. 1875–1895TCP-O25Workers tapping or tending young trees on slopeCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-N63Talipot palm in flower on a hillsideCentral Sri Lanka (probable) · c. 1880–1900TCP-N153Talipot palm in flowerCentral Sri Lanka (probable) · c. 1880–1900

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