Nitre Cave coffee/tea district plantations 1890-1891
- Title:
- Nitre Cave coffee/tea district plantations 1890-1891
- Collection:
- Depicting the Sri Lankan Vernacular
- Set:
- Nitre Cave
- Creator:
- Ferguson's Directory
- Date:
- 1891
- Location:
- Nitre Cave, Kandy District, Central Province, Sri Lanka
- Country:
- Sri Lanka
- ID Number:
- MCD2_0403
- File Name:
- MCD2_0403.jpg
- Culture:
- Sinhala
Tamil - Work Type:
- photograph
- Subject:
- commercial directories
Coffee industry
Commerce--Directories
Coffee plantations
Tea trade--Sri Lanka
Tea plantations - Image View Description:
- Excerpt of a commercial directory listing coffee/tea plantations operating in the Mimure (Meemure) valley (also partially coextensive with the Nitre Cave District) circa 1891 during the British colonial period. Listing information includes Estate, Tamil Names, Proprietors or Lessees, Agents, Resident Managers and Superintendents, Acreage (total and cultivated), and types of cultivated plants (tea, coffee, cinhona, cardamoms, and grass).
- Description:
- List of coffee/tea plantations or "estates" operating in the Mimure valley (also partially coextensive with the Nitre Cave District) circa 1891 during the British colonial period. Shows lessees/ownership, acreage, main plantation crops and other details.
- Source:
- Ferguson's Ceylon Directory for 1891, Colombo, The Ceylon Observer Press 1891
- Cite As:
- Bonnie and Robert MacDougall papers, #15-2-4397. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- This item is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of publication date, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections (http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright). The item was selected for inclusion in the Depicting the Sri Lankan Vernacular digital collection. For more information about this item, please contact rareref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.