The Ceylon Plates
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Colombo sea wall and railway along the shore. Galle Face / Kollupitiya shore, Colombo.
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Colombo sea wall and railway along the shore

Galle Face / Kollupitiya shore, Colombo
c. 1885–1905

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TCP-L76

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