The Ceylon Plates
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Figures on the green before the Galle Face Hotel and its palms. Galle Face, Colombo.
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Architecture

Figures on the green before the Galle Face Hotel and its palms

Galle Face, Colombo
1800s

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Reference
TCP-A5

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