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Ceylon Eight Pictorial Postcards: Pettah Colombo & Kandy.
1900207382Colombo Ceylon.: Plâté Ltd. Early1900s. Eight pictorial colour postcards all captioned and numbered with the publisher's studio series versos blank in two columns 8.8 x 13.8 cms or portrait in very good condition. Eight Plâté photographic postcards the last four from their "Art series" : <br>No. 13 A Tamil Lady in Rickshaw Ceylon <br>No. 18 Hindu Temple Colombo Ceylon <br>No. 20 Mohammadan Mosque Colombo Ceylon <br>No. 36 Temple Elephants after their bath Kandy Ceylon <br>No. 43 A typical road scene Ceylon <br>No. 54 A Double Bullock Cart Ceylon <br>No. 82 Street Scene in Pettah Colombo Ceylon <br>No. 105 Street Scene in the Pettah showing Native Quarters Colombo Ceylon <br> <br>A. W. Plâté & Co. was a prominent photographic studio in Ceylon now Sri Lanka founded in 1890 by Alfred William Amandus Plâté a German-born apothecary. The Plâté firm was instrumental in popularizing photography on the island and quickly became renowned for its high-quality photographic postcards capturing the island's landscapes people and daily life during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By 1907 their annual postcard production reached half a million. ".Plâté provides an important testimony to the development of colonial Ceylon during a crucial period of many changes and a substantive repository that provides a visual archive to support further historical research." see Benita Stambler "Maintaining the Photographic Legacy of Ceylon" on the University of Michigan's website . Plâté Ltd. unknown
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