postcards ceylon (3 Ergebnisse)

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") : No. 13 A Tamil Lady in Rickshaw, Ceylon No. 18 Hindu Temple, Colombo, Ceylon No. 20 Mohammadan Mosque, Colombo, Ceylon No. 36 Temple Elephants after their bath, Kandy, Ceylon No. 43 A typical road scene, Ceylon No. 54 A Double Bullock Cart, Ceylon No. 82 Street Scene in Pettah, Colombo, Ceylon No. 105 Street Scene in the Pettah, showing Native Quarters, Colombo, Ceylon 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].

Zustand: Good. Eleven Postcards. 3.5" x 5.5". Black & White Photographs (one Color), blank on verso (save for one, signed with inked note in German). Very Good. Text in English, French & German.

Zustand: Very good condition. A set of b&w printed photographic postcards of Ceylon (Sri Lanka), postally unused and captioned in English, of daily life and vernacular architecture, and including tea production. The postcards include city views of Colombo (Queen Street; Harbour and Landing Jetty; Galle Face green) and Kandy (Queens Hotel; Temple of the Holy Tooth; views of the Lake) Scenes of daily life include: village huts, native vegetable & fruit stand, bullock carts, local Hindoo (sic) temple, railways, elephants, and Singhalese women. Postally unused, bright and clean.