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Scowen & Co. — Fruitsellers

Scowen & Co.

Fruitsellers

1880

Street vendors display their wares in this ethnographic photograph that exemplifies 19th-century colonial documentation of local commerce and daily life in Ceylon.

Medium
Albumen print from glass plate negative

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Scowen & Co., Fruitsellers, 1880

Street vendors display their wares in this ethnographic photograph that exemplifies 19th-century colonial documentation of local commerce and daily life in Ceylon.

Medium
Albumen print from glass plate negative
Year
1880
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Victorian, Cultural, Street Life, Albumen Print, Figures, Documentary, Photograph, Street Scene, Market Scene, Fruitsellers, Marketplace, Historical, Sepia, British, Sepia Tones

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