Skeen & Co. Commercial photographers in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1860-c.1920. Trading as S. Slinn & Co. until 1869, the firm came to dominate the photographic scene in Ceylon. Under William Louis Henry Skeen (1847-1903), it produced a comprehensive stock of views of the island, including an important record of railway construction from the 1860s. The firm's establishment coincided with the expansion of the island's plantation economy, and its output includes a particularly extensive record of every aspect of tea production and other agricultural activities. A successful Burmese branch, managed by William's brother Frederick, and trading as Watts & Skeen, was established in Rangoon in 1887.
— John Falconer
