Kandy Station through time

EU: Gezicht op het meer van Kandy op Ceylon (1875) 1875 Kandy Lake, the artificial lake created in the hill country of Ceylon by the last king of Kandy, is the subject of this 1875 view of present-day Sri Lanka.

Toeganspoort tot een boeddhistische tempel, in de ingang staat een monnik Entrance to the Buddhist temple, Kandy. Ceylon (titel op object) 1875 The gateway to a Buddhist temple in Kandy, photographed in 1875 with a monk standing at the entrance, in the hill capital of Ceylon's former Kandyan Kingdom, the last independent Sinhalese kingdom before British annexation.

EU: Gezicht op het meer van Kandy op Ceylon (1877) 1877 This 1877 view looks out over Kandy Lake in the hill town of Kandy, Ceylon, the former royal capital of the Kandyan kingdom that had come under British colonial rule earlier in the century and remained a center of Buddhist tradition on the island.

Gezicht op het meer van Kandy op Ceylon 1878 Kandy Lake, the artificial lake at the center of the former Kandyan Kingdom's capital, seen here in an 1878 photograph from British Ceylon, decades after the lake's construction under the last Kandyan king.

Kandy, Ceylon (huidige Sri Lanka) 1880 A general view of Kandy in 1880, the hill-country city that had served as the last capital of the Sinhalese kings before British annexation in 1815 and remained a center of Buddhist religious life.

Kandy Lake, Kandy, Ceylon (huidige Sri Lanka) 1880 Another 1880 photograph of Kandy Lake, the man-made lake bordering the town's Temple of the Tooth, one of the most visited Buddhist pilgrimage sites in Ceylon.

Gezicht op een rivier nabij Kandy Rivière aux environs de Kandy (titel op object) 1882 A river near Kandy, photographed in 1882 in the hill country of central Ceylon, the region that formed the heart of the former Kandyan Kingdom.

EU: Bilden föreställer en panorama över Ceylons gamla huvudstad Kandy. (1883) 1883 A panoramic view of Kandy, the former capital of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), photographed in 1883.

EU: Bilden visar en åttkantig torn som är del av den så kallade Tandtempels i Ceylons gamla huvudstad Kandy. (1883) 1883 An octagonal tower belonging to the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, the former capital of Ceylon, photographed in 1883.

EU: Kartong med två motiv från Kandy, Sri Lankas gamla huvudstad. (1883) 1883 A Swedish postcard from 1883 combining two views of Kandy, the former royal capital of Sri Lanka, then the British colony of Ceylon, set in the island's central highlands and long a center of Buddhist tradition.

EU: Vanadisexpeditionen, fotografi, photograph (1884) 1884 A photograph taken in Kandy, Ceylon, in 1884 during the Vanadis expedition, a Swedish naval circumnavigation voyage aboard the corvette Vanadis.

EU: Bilden föreställer en panorama över Ceylons gamla huvudstad Kandy. (1884) 1884 A panoramic view of Kandy, the former royal capital of Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), photographed in 1884. The image captures the hill city's layout amid the surrounding highlands during the late nineteenth century, when Kandy remained a center of Sinhalese culture and Buddhist tradition under British colonial administration.

EU: Lake Kandy (1890) 1890 Kandy Lake, the artificial lake at the heart of the former Kingdom of Kandy in Ceylon, photographed in 1890 not far from the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic.

EU: View of the town of Kandy (1890) 1890 A general view of Kandy, the hill capital of Ceylon's last independent kingdom before British annexation in 1815, as it appeared in 1890.

EU: Schody k chrámu (1901) 1901 Steps leading to a temple in Kandy, Ceylon, photographed in 1901.

EU: Chrám Buddhova zubu (1901) 1901 The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, Ceylon, photographed in 1901.

Gezicht op Kandy met Tempel van de Tand (Dalada Maligawa) 1908 Kandy in 1908, with the Temple of the Tooth, Dalada Maligawa, which houses a relic said to be a tooth of the Buddha and remains the town's most sacred site and a center of Sinhalese Buddhist pilgrimage.

EU: 'Elefant badar i flod, en person står upprätt på betarna. :: :: ''12114 -The Elephant´s bath, Near Kandy, Ceylon .'' :: :: Ingår i serie med fotonr. 315-422.' (1910) 1910 An elephant bathes in a river near Kandy, in what was then Ceylon, in this 1910 photograph. The image is part of a numbered travel series from the period, when such scenes of local wildlife and daily life were popular subjects for postcards and photographic collections.

EU: "Elephant bathing in river, a person standing upright on the baits. : "12114 -The Elephant 's bath, Near Kandy, Ceylon.": Included in series with a photon. " (1910) 1910 An elephant is bathed in a river near Kandy, Ceylon, in this 1910 photograph, part of a numbered series documenting scenes from the island.

EU: Vanadisexpeditionen, fotografi, photograph (1910) 1910 A photograph of Kandy, Sri Lanka, dated to around 1910 and catalogued among the records of the Swedish 'Vanadisexpeditionen' expedition, which documented sites across Ceylon during the era of British colonial rule.

EU: The Elephant's Bath, Near Kandy, Ceylon (1910) 1910 Elephants used in the timber trade were customarily bathed in the rivers near Kandy, a practice recorded in this 1910 photograph from the former royal capital of Ceylon's central highlands.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka: Temple of teeth with stupa (1913) 1913 The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, with a stupa visible nearby, photographed in 1913. The temple houses what Buddhists venerate as a relic of the Buddha's tooth and has long been the spiritual center of the former Kingdom of Kandy.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). View over Lake Kandy towards a pavilion (1913) 1913 A view across Kandy Lake toward a lakeside pavilion, taken in 1913. The artificial lake was created in the early nineteenth century at the center of Kandy, the hill capital of what was then British Ceylon.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rickshaw ride of Hapag tourists in a street with residential and commercial buildings (1913) 1913 Passengers from a Hamburg America Line (Hapag) cruise take a rickshaw ride through a Kandy street lined with homes and shops in this 1913 photograph. Rickshaws were a common way for foreign visitors to tour the town during the era of British colonial Ceylon.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Park with equestrian monument. View of the temple of teeth (1913) 1913 A park with an equestrian statue frames a view toward the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in this 1913 Kandy photograph. The temple, Kandy's most prominent landmark, sits near the shore of Kandy Lake in the former hill capital of Ceylon.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (1913) 1913 A view from a hotel terrace in Kandy over strollers and a rickshaw driver, looking toward Kandy Lake, photographed in 1913. The artificial lake at the center of Kandy was created in the early nineteenth century and remained a focal point of the city.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Park mit Reiterdenkmal. Blick zum Zahntempel (1913) 1913 A park in Kandy featuring an equestrian monument, with the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic visible in the distance, photographed in 1913. The temple houses what is venerated as a relic of the Buddha's tooth and remains one of Sri Lanka's most important pilgrimage sites.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rikschafahrt von Touristen der Hapag in einer Straße mit Wohn- und Geschäftshäusern (1913) 1913 Tourists traveling with the Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) ride by rickshaw through a street of homes and shops in Kandy in this 1913 photograph. HAPAG operated round-the-world cruises in the years before the First World War that included stops in Ceylon.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Driving along a tree-covered road around Lake Kandy (1913) 1913 A carriage travels along a tree-lined road encircling Lake Kandy in this 1913 photograph. The road around the lake was, and remains, a popular route for taking in views of the surrounding hills and the Temple of the Tooth.

EU: Dalada Maligawa (1913) 1913 The Dalada Maligawa, or Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, in Kandy, photographed in 1913. The temple has long been the spiritual center of Sri Lankan Buddhism and a site of royal patronage dating back centuries.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rikschafahrt von Touristen der Hapag in einer Strasse mit Wohn- und Geschaeftshaeusern (1913) 1913 A further 1913 photograph of Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) tourists riding by rickshaw through a Kandy street lined with homes and shops, related to a companion image from the same series.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka: Zahntempel mit Stupa (1913) 1913 The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy is shown here alongside a stupa, photographed in 1913. The temple complex includes several structures built up over centuries to house and honor the relic.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel uber Spaziergaenger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (1913) 1913 Visitors stroll along the shore of Kandy Lake in the central highlands of Sri Lanka, viewed from a nearby hotel terrace; a rickshaw puller waits in the foreground, a common sight for European tourists visiting the former Kingdom of Kandy in the early twentieth century.

EU: Dalada Maligawa Kandy (1913) 1913 The Sri Dalada Maligawa, or Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, stands in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Built in the royal palace complex of the former Kandyan kingdom, the temple houses a relic believed to be a tooth of the Buddha and remains one of the island's most venerated Buddhist shrines.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Zahntempel. Einheimische vor Stupa (1913) 1913 Local worshippers gather before a stupa at the Temple of the Tooth complex in Kandy, Sri Lanka, the sacred site built to enshrine a relic of the Buddha and long the religious heart of the Kandyan kingdom, drawing pilgrims from across the island each year.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Driving of Hapag tourists in a street with residential and commercial buildings (1913) 1913 Hapag tour passengers are driven through a Kandy street lined with residential and commercial buildings, part of an organized excursion offered to European travelers visiting Ceylon's hill capital during a stop on a round-the-world cruise.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). View from the hotel over pedestrians and a rickshaw driver on Lake Kandy (1913) 1913 Pedestrians and a rickshaw driver pass along the shore of Kandy Lake, seen from a hotel window in this 1913 photograph. The lake, created in the early nineteenth century at the center of Kandy, remained a focal point of the hill city's daily life.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Tooth temple. Locals in front of Stupa (1913) 1913 Local residents gather in front of a stupa near the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy in this 1913 photograph, one of the most revered Buddhist sites in Sri Lanka.

EU: Colombo, Sri Lanka. Blick über eine Seeparklandschaft mit üppiger Vegetation und Bucht mit wohl künstlich angelegtem Inselchen gegen besiedelte Uferzone (1913) 1913 A view over a lake park landscape in Kandy, Sri Lanka, photographed in 1913, showing lush vegetation and what appears to be a small artificial island in the bay opposite a built-up shoreline. The scene reflects Kandy's well-known lake, a central feature of the town during the period of British colonial rule in Ceylon.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka: Temple of teeth with stupa (1913) [2] 1913 The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, Sri Lanka, shown with an adjoining stupa in this 1913 photograph. The temple houses what is venerated as a relic of the Buddha and has long been a center of Sri Lankan Buddhist pilgrimage.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (1913) [2] 1913 A view from a hotel balcony over Kandy Lake, Sri Lanka, taken in 1913. Pedestrians stroll along the lakeside promenade while a rickshaw puller works below, a common sight in the hill town during the British colonial period.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (1913) [3] 1913 Another 1913 view over Kandy Lake taken from a hotel vantage point, showing strollers on the lakeside path and a rickshaw puller passing by. The artificial lake, created in the early nineteenth century, remains the centerpiece of Kandy's town plan.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (1913) #1 1913 Kandy Lake seen from a hotel terrace, with strollers and a rickshaw driver along the shore, photographed in 1913 in the hill city that served as the last capital of the Kingdom of Kandy.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (1913) #2 1913 Another 1913 view over Kandy Lake from the same hotel vantage point, with pedestrians along the water's edge in the former royal capital of the Kandyan kingdom.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (1913) #3 1913 A third 1913 photograph looking out over Kandy Lake from a hotel terrace, in the hill city that was the last independent kingdom on Ceylon before British annexation in 1815.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). View over Lake Kandy towards a pavilion Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick über den Kandy-See zu einem Pavillon (1913) 1913 Lake Kandy and a lakeside pavilion appear in this 1913 photograph, taken in the hill town that once served as the last capital of the Kingdom of Kandy.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Zahntempel. Einheimische vor Stupa Kandy, Sri Lanka. Tooth temple. Locals in front of Stupa (1913) 1913 Local residents gather before a stupa at the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy in this 1913 photograph, one of Buddhism's most venerated sites in Sri Lanka.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Park mit Reiterdenkmal. Blick zum Zahntempel Kandy (Sri Lanka). Park with equestrian monument. View of the temple of teeth (1913) 1913 An equestrian monument stands in a Kandy park with the Temple of the Tooth visible beyond, photographed in 1913.

EU: Dalada Maligawa Dalada Maligawa (1913) 1913 The Dalada Maligawa, or Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, in Kandy, photographed in 1913 during a period when Ceylon was under British colonial administration.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Driving along a tree-covered road around Lake Kandy Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rikschafahrt entlang einer mit Bäumen bestandenen Straße um den Kandy-See (1913) 1913 Rickshaws travel a tree-lined road circling Lake Kandy in this 1913 photograph, a route still popular with visitors to the hill town.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rikschafahrt von Touristen der Hapag in einer Straße mit Wohn- und Geschäftshäusern Kandy, Sri Lanka. Driving of Hapag tourists in a street with residential and commercial buildi 1913 Tourists from a Hamburg America Line (Hapag) cruise ride rickshaws through a Kandy street of homes and shops in this 1913 photograph.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka: Temple of teeth with stupa Kandy, Sri Lanka: Zahntempel mit Stupa (1913) 1913 The Temple of the Tooth and its stupa in Kandy, photographed in 1913, at the heart of a city that remains a major pilgrimage destination in Sri Lanka.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Park with equestrian monument, view of the temple of teeth (1913) 1913 A park with an equestrian monument and a view toward the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, photographed in 1913.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See 1 (1913) 1913 A view from a hotel over pedestrians and a rickshaw driver beside Kandy Lake, photographed in 1913. The lake, created in the early 19th century, sits at the heart of the hill city of Kandy.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See 3 (1913) 1913 Another 1913 view overlooking Kandy Lake, with strollers and a rickshaw visible along its shore in the hill capital of Kandy, a town built around the lake in the early 19th century.

EU: Dalada Maligawa, Kandy (1913) 1913 The Sri Dalada Maligawa, or Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, in Kandy, photographed in 1913. The temple houses what is venerated as a relic of the tooth of the Buddha and remains one of Buddhism's most important pilgrimage sites.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (1913 [df_lb_0000400]) 1913 Pedestrians and a rickshaw driver pass beside Kandy Lake in this 1913 view from a nearby hotel, overlooking the lake at the center of the hill city of Kandy.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (1913 [df_lb_0000401]) 1913 A further 1913 photograph looking over Kandy Lake from a hotel vantage point, with strollers along the shore of the lake that lies at the heart of Kandy.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel ueber Spaziergaenger auf den Kandy-See (1913, img1) 1913 Taken from a hotel terrace in 1913, this photograph looks out over strollers along the shore of Kandy Lake, the artificial lake at the heart of the hill town of Kandy, then part of British Ceylon.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel ueber Spaziergaenger auf den Kandy-See (1913, img3) 1913 Another view from the same hotel vantage point in Kandy shows pedestrians walking beside Kandy Lake in 1913, with the lake's tree-lined banks and surrounding hills visible in this Ceylon hill town.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Park mit Reiterdenkmal, Blick zum Zahntempel (1913) 1913 This 1913 photograph shows a park in Kandy with an equestrian monument in the foreground and a view toward the Temple of the Tooth, the Buddhist shrine housing a relic of the Buddha and one of Sri Lanka's most sacred sites.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rikschafahrt der Touristen in Strasse mit Wohn- und Geschaeftshaeusern (1913) 1913 Tourists travel by rickshaw down a Kandy street lined with residential and commercial buildings in this 1913 photograph, a common mode of transport in the hill towns of British Ceylon at the time.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). View from hotel over walkers and a rickshaw driver on Lake Kandy (1913) 1913 Pedestrians and a rickshaw driver pass along the edge of Kandy Lake in this 1913 view taken from a hotel overlooking the water, in the central highlands of British Ceylon, present-day Sri Lanka.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rickshaw ride through a street with residential and commercial buildings (1913) 1913 A rickshaw carries passengers through a Kandy thoroughfare mixing homes and shops in this 1913 photograph, documenting everyday street life in the hill capital during the colonial era.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Park with equestrian monument, view to Temple of the Tooth (1913) 1913 A park with an equestrian monument opens onto a view of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in this 1913 photograph of the hill city's ceremonial center, built around the last royal capital of the island's Kandyan kingdom.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rickshaw tour of Hapag tourists on a street with houses and shops (1913) 1913 Tourists from the Hapag shipping line take a rickshaw tour past houses and shops on a street in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in this 1913 photograph, reflecting the cruise excursions that the German shipping company then organized for passengers visiting the island.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). View from hotel over walkers and a rickshaw on Lake Kandy (1913) 1913 Walkers and a rickshaw are seen from a hotel overlooking Kandy Lake, Sri Lanka, in this 1913 photograph of the hill town built around the artificial lake that lies at the foot of the Temple of the Tooth.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka: Temple of the Tooth with stupa (1913) 1913 The Temple of the Tooth and its stupa stand in this 1913 photograph from Kandy, Sri Lanka, the shrine that houses a relic said to be a tooth of the Buddha and that has long drawn pilgrims to the former royal capital.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Temple of the Tooth, locals in front of the stupa (1913) 1913 Local residents gather in front of the stupa at the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in this 1913 photograph of the Buddhist shrine that remains one of the island's most venerated religious sites.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See #2 (1913) 1913 Strollers and a rickshaw driver pass along Kandy Lake as seen from a hotel terrace in this second photograph from a 1913 series taken in Kandy, Sri Lanka, near the Temple of the Tooth.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See #3 (1913) 1913 A third photograph from the same 1913 Kandy, Sri Lanka series again shows pedestrians and a rickshaw beside the lake, viewed from a hotel above the water near the town's historic temple precinct.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). View from the hotel over pedestrians and a rickshaw driver to Lake Kandy (1) (1913) 1913 Pedestrians and a rickshaw driver are viewed from a hotel overlooking Kandy Lake in this 1913 photograph, the first in a pair taken from the same vantage point in Kandy, Sri Lanka, near the Temple of the Tooth.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Tooth temple, locals in front of the stupa (1913) 1913 Local residents stand before the stupa at the Tooth Temple in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in this 1913 photograph of the Buddhist shrine at the center of the former Kandyan kingdom's royal capital.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Park with equestrian monument, view of the Temple of the Tooth (1913) 1913 An equestrian monument stands in a park with a view toward the Temple of the Tooth in this 1913 photograph of Kandy, Sri Lanka, in the city built around the sacred lake at the heart of the old royal capital.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Tourists driving in a street with residential and commercial buildings (1913) 1913 Tourists ride through a street lined with residential and commercial buildings in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in this 1913 photograph capturing the hill town's daily traffic during a period of growing visitor numbers from Europe.

EU: Bei Kandy (Sri Lanka). Fruchthändler mit Schulterstange und daranhängenden Körben (1913) 1913 A fruit seller carries baskets suspended from a shoulder pole near Kandy, Sri Lanka, in this 1913 photograph documenting local trade and everyday commerce on the roads leading into the hill town.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rikschafahrt von Touristen der Hapag in einer Straße (1913) 1913 Tourists from the Hapag shipping line take a rickshaw ride along a street in Kandy, Sri Lanka, in this 1913 photograph documenting a stop on a European cruise itinerary that brought visitors to the island's hill capital.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Temple of teeth with stupa (1913) 1913 Kandy's Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, seen here in 1913, is a Buddhist shrine that houses what is venerated as a tooth relic of the Buddha and has long drawn pilgrims to the former Kandyan Kingdom.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). View from the hotel over strollers and a rickshaw driver on Lake Kandy (1913) 1913 Pedestrians and a rickshaw driver pass along the shore of Kandy Lake in this 1913 photograph, taken from a nearby hotel overlooking the artificial lake built in the early nineteenth century by the last king of Kandy.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. View over the lake with its small island (1913) 1913 This 1913 view looks across Kandy Lake toward its small central island, a man-made feature constructed under the Kandyan kings before the British took control of the region.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. View over Lake Kandy towards a pavilion (1913) 1913 This 1913 photograph looks across Lake Kandy toward a lakeside pavilion. The lake was dug on the orders of Sri Wickrama Rajasinha, the last king of the Kandyan kingdom, shortly before the British annexation of 1815.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. View from hotel over Lake Kandy promenade (1913) [0000401] 1913 Taken from a hotel window in 1913, this view takes in the promenade running along Lake Kandy. Such lakeside walks were popular with both residents and the visitors who came to the hill town for its cooler climate.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. View from hotel over Lake Kandy promenade (1913) [0000400] 1913 A companion view from the same 1913 series shows the Lake Kandy promenade from a hotel vantage point, with the wooded hills that ring the town visible in the distance beyond the water.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Park with equestrian monument, view to Temple of Tooth (1913) 1913 Another 1913 photograph from Kandy shows the park and its equestrian monument, with the Temple of the Tooth visible beyond. The temple has drawn Buddhist pilgrims to the city for centuries.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rickshaw ride through a street with houses (1913) 1913 In this 1913 photograph a rickshaw passes along a residential street in Kandy, the last capital of the Sinhalese kings before British rule was extended over the whole island in 1815.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Temple of the Tooth with stupa (1913) 1913 The Temple of the Tooth and an adjoining stupa are pictured in Kandy in this 1913 photograph. The temple houses what is venerated as a tooth relic of the Buddha and remains one of Buddhism's most sacred sites.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel Rikschafahrer Kandy-See (1913) 1913 Rickshaw pullers and strollers pass along the shore of Kandy Lake in this 1913 view, taken from a nearby hotel in the hill town of Kandy, Sri Lanka, then part of British Ceylon.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Park mit Reiterdenkmal Blick zum Zahntempel (1913) 1913 An equestrian monument stands in a lakeside park in Kandy in this 1913 photograph, with the sacred Temple of the Tooth visible in the distance across the water.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rikschafahrt von Touristen der Hapag (1913) 1913 Tourists traveling with the Hamburg-based shipping line Hapag are pulled by rickshaw through Kandy in 1913, part of an early 20th-century cruise itinerary through Ceylon.

EU: Dalada Maligawa (1913) 1913 The Dalada Maligawa, or Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, in Kandy is captured here in 1913; the temple houses what is venerated as a relic of the Buddha and remains one of Sri Lanka's most important pilgrimage sites.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka): View over Lake Kandy towards a pavilion (1913) 1913 Kandy Lake and a lakeside pavilion are the subject of this 1913 photograph, part of the ornamental grounds laid out around the artificial lake created in the early 19th century.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka: Driving along a tree-covered road around Lake Kandy (1913) 1913 A tree-shaded road circling Kandy Lake appears in this 1913 image, part of the scenic route that has long drawn visitors around the hill capital's central lake in Ceylon.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka): Park with equestrian monument, view to the Temple of the Tooth (1913) 1913 Photographed in 1913, this park in Kandy features an equestrian statue with the Temple of the Tooth visible beyond, placing a colonial-era monument within sight of the island's most revered Buddhist shrine.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka): View from the hotel over strollers and a rickshaw puller at Kandy Lake (1913) 1913 From a hotel balcony in 1913, this photograph frames strollers and a rickshaw puller along the edge of Kandy Lake in the central highlands of Ceylon.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka: Rickshaw ride of Hapag tourists in a street with residential and commercial buildings (1913) 1913 Hapag cruise passengers ride by rickshaw past a row of residential and commercial buildings in Kandy in this 1913 photograph, documenting the town during an era of growing steamship tourism to Ceylon.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (df_lb_0000401) (1913) 1913 Pedestrians and a rickshaw puller line the shore of Kandy Lake in another 1913 exposure taken from the same hotel vantage point, part of a series documenting the lakeside promenade.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (df_lb_0000400) (1913) 1913 A companion 1913 photograph, taken moments apart from a nearby frame, again looks out from a Kandy hotel over the lake and its lakeside walkway in the central highlands of Ceylon.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (1913) [item_7JVJG] 1913 Photographed from a hotel terrace in Kandy in 1913, this view overlooks strollers and a rickshaw driver along the shore of Kandy Lake, the artificial lake at the heart of the hill city.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel über Spaziergänger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (1913) [item_RWJEV] 1913 A second exposure of the same 1913 scene in Kandy, again looking from the hotel terrace across pedestrians and a rickshaw driver by Kandy Lake, the lake built in the early nineteenth century at the center of the old Kandyan kingdom's capital.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel uber Spaziergaenger auf den Kandy-See A (1913) 1913 Labeled simply "A," this 1913 photograph offers a further view from the hotel terrace in Kandy over strollers along the lakeshore, with the wooded hills surrounding the old Kandyan capital rising behind the water.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel uber Spaziergaenger auf den Kandy-See B (1913) 1913 Its companion image, labeled "B," shows the same Kandy lakeside scene from 1913 at a slightly different moment, part of a small series of exposures taken from the same hotel vantage point that year.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rikschafahrt von Touristen in einer Strasse (1913) 1913 Tourists take a rickshaw ride through a street in Kandy in this 1913 photograph, a common mode of transport for visitors to the hill town during the colonial period.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). View from the hotel over strollers and a rickshaw driver on Lake Kandy (2) (1913) 1913 Another 1913 photograph taken from the hotel in Kandy, again looking out over strollers and a rickshaw driver beside the lake at the center of the hill town.

EU: Colombo, Sri Lanka. Blick uber eine Seeparklandschaft (1913) 1913 Cataloged as part of the same 1913 series, this photograph looks out over a lakeside park landscape near Kandy, Ceylon, in the hill country that served as the seat of the old Kandyan kingdom.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). View over Lake Kandy towards a pavilion 1913 A view across Kandy Lake toward a pavilion; the lake was created in the early nineteenth century by the last king of Kandy and remains a defining feature of the hill town in central Sri Lanka.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Driving along a tree-covered road around Lake Kandy 1913 A tree-lined road circles Kandy Lake in this 1913 photograph of the hill town of Kandy, then part of British Ceylon and known for the lake built by its last king in the early 1800s.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka: Temple of teeth with stupa 1913 The Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, Kandy's most important Buddhist shrine, is shown here with an adjoining stupa; the temple houses a relic said to be a tooth of the Buddha and remains a major site of pilgrimage.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel ueber Spaziergaenger und einen Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See [0000401] 1913 Seen from a hotel window, walkers and a rickshaw driver make their way along the shore of Kandy Lake in this 1913 photograph, a scene typical of daily life in colonial-era Ceylon's hill capital.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Park mit Reiterdenkmal. Blick zum Zahntempel 1913 A park with an equestrian monument in Kandy looks toward the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in this 1913 photograph, capturing part of the public grounds near Sri Lanka's most venerated Buddhist shrine.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rikschafahrt von Touristen der Hapag in einer Strasse mit Wohn- und Geschaeftshaeusern 1913 Tourists traveling with the Hamburg America Line, known as Hapag, tour by rickshaw along a Kandy street lined with residential and commercial buildings in this 1913 photograph from British Ceylon.

EU: Dalada Maligawa (fotothek) 1913 The Dalada Maligawa, or Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, in Kandy is one of the most venerated Buddhist sites in South Asia, housing a relic believed to be a tooth of the Buddha within its walled inner sanctum.

EU: Colombo, Sri Lanka. Blick ueber eine Seeparklandschaft (1913) 1913 A view over the lake and parkland surrounding Kandy Lake in the hill town of Kandy, Ceylon, photographed in the early twentieth century, when the lake and its gardens were already a well-known local landmark.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Park mit Reiterdenkmal, view of the temple of teeth (1913) 1913 Another 1913 view of the park with its equestrian monument in Kandy, looking toward the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic across the public grounds near the shore of Kandy Lake.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). Blick vom Hotel ueber Spaziergaenger und Rikschafahrer auf den Kandy-See (1913) 1913 A further 1913 photograph taken from a hotel window shows walkers and a rickshaw along the edge of Kandy Lake, a familiar scene from the hill capital under British colonial rule.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Rikschafahrt in einer Strasse mit Wohn- und Geschaeftshaeusern (1913) 1913 A rickshaw travels a Kandy street lined with homes and shops in this 1913 photograph, part of a series documenting the hill town during the British colonial period in Ceylon.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Temple grounds with stupa (1913) 1913 The grounds of the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic in Kandy, including an adjoining stupa, photographed in 1913; the temple, which houses a relic said to be a tooth of the Buddha, remains one of Buddhism's most venerated sites.

EU: Kandy (Sri Lanka). View from the hotel over walkers and a rickshaw on Kandy Lake (1913) 1913 Walkers and a rickshaw pass along Kandy Lake as seen from a nearby hotel in this 1913 photograph, one of several images capturing daily movement around the lake's shore.

EU: Kandy, Sri Lanka. Street with residential and commercial buildings (1913) 1913 A street in Kandy lined with residential and commercial buildings, photographed in 1913 during the period of British colonial rule in Ceylon, when the hill town combined local trade with a growing tourist presence.

EU: Giant Bamboos, \ ‘King of Grasses\’ (50 to 100 ft.high), Peradeniya Gardens, near Kandy, Ceyln. Rationale of the title, title inscribed Underwood & Underwood Publishers (1921) 1921 Giant bamboo, reaching some 50 to 100 feet, growing in the Peradeniya Botanical Gardens near Kandy, Ceylon, photographed in 1921 and published by Underwood & Underwood.

Festival in Kandy 1930 A festival procession in Kandy, Sri Lanka, photographed in 1930. The hill city has long been the setting for major Buddhist processions connected to the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic.

Kandy, Sri Lanka 2015 Kandy, the last capital of the Sinhalese kings before British annexation in 1815, sits amid hills in central Sri Lanka and is home to the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic, one of the most venerated Buddhist sites on the island.

Kandy Station 2017 Yellow-roofed platforms and tropical palms line the railway tracks at Kandy Station in this 2017 photograph, a stop on Sri Lanka's hill-country rail line serving the city of Kandy.

Kandy Sunrise 2017 Sunrise over Kandy, Sri Lanka, photographed in 2017. The city, the last capital of the Sinhalese kings before British annexation in 1815, lies in a valley of the central highlands beside a man-made lake.

River mahawali front view 2020 The Mahaweli River, Sri Lanka's longest waterway, flows past Kandy in this 2020 photograph, on its course from the island's central highlands toward the northeast coast.

SL Kandy Wace Park 2020 Wace Park lies along the shore of Kandy Lake in Kandy, Sri Lanka, a small public garden near the city's historic center and the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic. Photographed in 2020.

SL Kandy Empire Hotel 2020 A hotel known as the Empire Hotel stands in Kandy, Sri Lanka, near the city's central lake and historic core, within walking distance of the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic. Photographed in 2020.

SL Kandy Arthurs Seat view 2020 Taken in 2020, this photograph shows the view from Arthur's Seat, a hillside vantage point above Kandy, Sri Lanka, overlooking the city and its surrounding hills.

SL Kandy Wace Park 2020 This 2020 photograph was taken in Wace Park, a public park in Kandy, Sri Lanka, near the shore of Kandy Lake in the heart of the former Kandyan Kingdom's capital.

SL Kandy Wace Park 2020 Another 2020 view of Wace Park in Kandy, Sri Lanka, a green space in the city that once served as the royal capital of the Kandyan Kingdom before British annexation in 1815.

SL Kandy Wace Park 2020 This photograph, taken in Wace Park in Kandy, Sri Lanka in 2020, shows part of the public park close to the historic centre of the city, within walking distance of the Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic and Kandy Lake.

SL Kandy Queens Bath 2020 The Queen's Bath in Kandy, Sri Lanka, photographed in 2020, is a small pavilion on the Mahaweli River once used by the royal court of the Kandyan Kingdom.