The Ceylon Plates

The collection

Work & Industry

Tea, rubber, cinnamon and the crafts of town and village.

TCP-O24Men pruning tea bushesCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O73Tea bushes and figure (unusually dense)Central highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O67Crepe rubber laid on a tableRubber estate · c. 1905–1920TCP-O56Rubber factory, rolling machine and workersRubber estate · c. 1905–1920TCP-O33Tea rolling machineCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-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-O53Workers beneath treesCentral highlands or Kelani Valley · c. 1890–1910TCP-O12Barber at work, seated clientc. 1880–1900TCP-O20Ploughing a paddy with buffaloc. 1880–1900TCP-O18Stall hung with fruit and sugar cane, ColomboDate unknownTCP-O41Soldering and stencilling Ceylon tea chestsCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O62Women sorting seed beneath young treeRubber estate (seed, probable) · c. 1905–1920TCP-O13Weavers at a ground loomc. 1880–1900TCP-O64Young plantation on cleared landRubber estate · c. 1905–1920TCP-O22Workers in new tea nursery bedsCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O71Tea slopes with shade trees and bungalowCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O10Barber at work, seated clientc. 1880–1900TCP-O9Rows of workers and piles in a drying yardc. 1880–1900TCP-O78Long tea factory interior, chestsCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O7Cinnamon drying on racks, thatched houseSouthwest coast (Colombo-Negombo belt, probable) · c. 1880–1900TCP-O74Sorting tea leaf with machineCentral highlands · c. 1885–1905TCP-O68Newly felled forest, charred trunksCentral highlands · c. 1880–1910TCP-O47Workers at tea sifting tablesCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O55Rubber tappers on a plantationKelani Valley or Kalutara district (probable) · c. 1905–1920TCP-O70Tea slopes and mountainsCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O50Felled and burnt land in a valleyCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O25Workers tapping or tending young trees on slopeCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O34Tea factory rolling machine by windowCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O65Rubber sheets drying in a smokehouseRubber estate · c. 1905–1920TCP-O57Rubber factory, latex pans on tablesRubber estate · c. 1905–1920TCP-O66Rubber biscuit sheets hung on linesRubber estate · c. 1905–1920TCP-O35Tea factory with firing machine and workersCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O59Rubber factory with long aisleRubber estate · c. 1905–1920TCP-O40Packing tea chests at factory doorCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O31Tea factory interior with machineryCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O6Cinnamon peelers at a houseSouthwest coast (Colombo-Negombo belt, probable) · c. 1880–1900TCP-O26Large group of workers among baskets, hillsideCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O37Tea leaf spread out on floor matsCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O27Workers weighing baskets of plucked teaCentral highlands · Date unknownTCP-O38Three men hand-sorting tea at a tableCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O2Dhobies (washermen) at a lakeBeira Lake, Colombo · c. 1880–1900TCP-O29Tea factory interiorCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910TCP-O61Newly felled hill land for plantingRubber or tea estate · c. 1900–1915TCP-O49Workers among felled trees, jungle clearingCentral highlands · c. 1880–1900TCP-O52Tea pluckers across a slopeCentral highlands · c. 1890–1910

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