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John Falconer, British Library A Biographical Dictionary of 19th Century Photographers in South and South-East Asia
Commercial, Sri Lanka
Auctioner and photographer, Kandy, 1861-2 (Ferguson).
An 1867 advertisement for ‘Picture headed note paper’ states that three views of Kandy are ‘from photographs by Messrs Herbert and Co.’[1]
Footnotes
Λ Advertisement of back cover of the Guide to the Colombo and Kandy Railway (Colombo, printed at the ‘Observer’ Press, 1867).
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