The Ceylon Plates
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Main Street, with a thatched cart in the foreground. Main Street, Pettah, Colombo.
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Main Street, with a thatched cart in the foreground

Main Street, Pettah, Colombo
Late 1800s

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Reference
TCP-L89

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