Cart (Colombo, Sri Lanka)

Item Information

Title:
Cart (Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Description:
This lantern slide, “Cart (Colombo, Sri Lanka),” shows a man driving a cart pulled by oxen through Colombo, the largest city in Sri Lanka. . This slide is part of Springfield College’s lantern slide series depicting Y.M.C.A. work in India, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar in the early twentieth century. The series was prepared by the Foreign Division of the American and Canadian Y.M.C.A, which established self-sustaining associations staffed by trained secretaries in foreign lands.
Creator:
Hawkes, Joseph
Date:
[1910?–1930?]
Format:
Photographs
Location:
Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
Collection (local):
College Archives Digital Collections
Series:
Lantern Slide Collection
Subjects:
International Young Men's Christian Association
Lantern slides
Carts & wagons
Oxen
Extent:
3.25x3.25 in
Link to Item:
http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/3237
Terms of Use:
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Publisher:
Springfield College
Language:
English
Notes:
Colombo is known as the commercial, industrial, and cultural capital of Sri Lanka and has been an important trade city for nearly two thousand years. The man pictured likely works for Bosanquet & Co. and is taking their goods to market. Bosanquet & Co. was founded in Columbo in 1897, at which time it took over George Wall & Co. They primarily exported tea, cocoa, coffee, and cardamoms, and were largely interested in the import of cotton piece-goods. They were the sole agents for Nobel’s Explosives Company, Ltd., and thus controlled the main share of dynamite trade in Ceylon. As of 1907, they owned over 33,445 acres and processed over ten million pounds of tea annually. The first Y.M.C.A. in Sri Lanka was founded in 1884 by Frank K. Sanders, an American missionary affiliated with the International Committee of the Y.M.C.A.s of the United States and Canada. Sander's association was the first of many; they sprang up in schools, colleges, and villages in the northern part of the island. By
Glass is cracked; Text on border reads, "5 Ceylon Colombo Bullock Cart; made by Joseph Hawkes New York City."
Part of the Y.M.C.A. Work in India and Sri Lanka Lantern Slide Series
Identifier:
LS-09A-02