Stanford University Libraries house two special collections with relevance to Sri Lanka. One is the Bob Fitch photography archive collection titled “Nonviolent Peaceforce in Sri Lanka, 2005.” This set of 244 photographs documents Fitch’s time on the island working for the Nonviolent Peaceforce NGO. The images include shots of tsunami and wartime damage, religious sites, cityscapes, militarization, LTTE scrapbooks, political rallies, NGO work, and scenes of everyday life.
Stanford is also home to the David Rumsey Map Collection. A search for “Sri Lanka” returns over 150 results, ranging from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. The collection includes various reproductions of Ptolemy’s Taprobane map, examples of Dutch, French, and British colonial cartography, novelty maps showing the island’s tea industry, and modern world atlases. High resolution images are available to download.
