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Year: 2009

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Chatham Street, Colombo, Ceylon

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  • Buildings & Cities

National Bank of India on Princes’s street

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  • Prints & Artwork

Colombo dockyard and port plan, Ceylon 1909

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  • Buildings & Cities

Dondra Head Lighthouse near Matara c.1890?s

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  • Nature & Landscape

Trophy Hunting Elephant in Ceylon c.1880

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  • Nature & Landscape

Kandy, Historic Hill capital and surrounding hills 1880’s

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View of the Echelon Barracks, Colombo Sri Lanka 1910

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  • Nature & Landscape

View of Kandy Ceylon c.1880 by Skeen & Co,.

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Kalu Ganga at Rathnapura c.1870s

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  • People & Lifestyle

Veddahs of Ceylon (Wild Men or Yakkas)

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  • People & Lifestyle

Native Singhalese Woman

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  • People & Lifestyle

Native woman 1880-1890

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