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Scowen & Co.

Ceylonese Woman

c. 1880s
albumen print

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Skeen & Co. and Scowen & Co., the two leading photographic establishments in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in the 1880s, rarely signed their work.

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